2026-08-01
Camenca: A Soviet-era Trail Through Northern Transnistria
The first guide to Moldova's least-visited district, from a folk-mosaic house of culture on the Ukrainian border to the collective-farm villages of the Dniester river.
Digest
Every year, fragments of an entire civilisation disappear without record. These essays and articles explore the stories, people, and ideas behind this vanishing history: who made these works of art, why they matter, and what it means to lose them.
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2026-06-17
Soviet Synthesis: How Decorative Art Shaped the Built Interior
Soviet decorative art treated the interior as a single artwork. This piece traces how mosaics, stained glass, ceramics, metalwork, and sgraffito were integrated into Soviet, brutalist, and modernist architecture across the USSR through the principle of synthesis.
2026-05-18
Socialist and Brutalist Heritage Archives: The Projects Behind Concrete Wastelands
The archive behind the archive: the projects, books, and communities that made Concrete Wastelands possible.
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Camenca: A Soviet-era Trail Through Northern Transnistria
The first guide to Moldova's least-visited district, from a folk-mosaic house of culture on the Ukrainian border to the collective-farm villages of the Dniester river.
2
Soviet Synthesis: How Decorative Art Shaped the Built Interior
Soviet decorative art treated the interior as a single artwork. This piece traces how mosaics, stained glass, ceramics, metalwork, and sgraffito were integrated into Soviet, brutalist, and modernist architecture across the USSR through the principle of synthesis.
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Socialist and Brutalist Heritage Archives: The Projects Behind Concrete Wastelands
The archive behind the archive: the projects, books, and communities that made Concrete Wastelands possible.