Moscow Art Nouveau: How to Read the City by Its Facades
This architecture isn't a museum piece in a white glove, nor is it simply a pretty urban decoration. Yes, it has wavy latticework, female masks, ceramic panels, floral scrolls, and oddly shaped windows. But behind this early 20th-century façade splendor lies a moment when Moscow attempted to define itself in a new language: not through Empire-style discipline or the merchant "expensive and opulent," but through...