Subterranean Moscow
320 kilometres in length, 200 stations, 2.4 billion passengers per year: a photography book published by Dom explores the history of the Russian capital’s mega metro network
With a railway network that is 320 kilometres long, has 200 stations and moves 2.4 billion passengers per year, at an often frightening depth and with interconnecting lines that look like a puzzle, the Moscow metro is considered one of the most beautiful and fascinating in the world. A photography book, Hidden Urbanism. Architecture and Design of the Moscow Metro 1935 — 2015, explores its history. From the first stations dating to Stalin’s time, famous for their sumptuous entrances, decorated ceilings, columns, staircases and marble floors, sculptures and mosaics that would make any museum or art gallery jealous; to the most modern, almost futuristic stations.
It includes photographs that document the incredible urban transformation that has taken place throughout the years, as well as snapshots taken at construction sites that are still open for the millionth line expansion (which should conclude in 2017), as well as plans, advertisement posters and the work of the graphic studio Art. Lebedev on its corporate identity.
A 360 degree look at subterranean Moscow that serves to enrich the increasingly important catalogue of publications related to Russia, its history and its culture, which Dom has been working on for many years now.
“Hidden Urbanism. Architecture and Design of the Moscow Metro 1935 — 2015”
Sergey Kuznetsov, Alexander Zmeul, Erken Kagarov
Herausgegeben von Philipp Meuser und Anna Martovitskaya
Dom publishers
pp. 352, € 98,00
English/Russian
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