BUILDING SOCIALIST GEORGIA
Graphic Designer
Project Owner: Alt Üst Studio / Editors: Nina Palavandashvili, İrina Kurtishvili / Curators: Georg Schöllhammer, Ruben Arevshatyan
October 2021, Published in English and Georgian
Building Socialist Georgia for the first time unfolds hitherto hidden chapters of the history of architecture and urbanism in the country from 1920s to 1980s. Therefore, this book is not focusing on the already canonized work of “star architects” but instead gives thematic insights and puts works not only in architectural but also in political and geographical contexts. This mirrors in the contributions written by Georgia’s most significant architecture practitioners or historians and those of cultural theory. Their case does not aim at a stylistic or thematic cohesion, but deliberately use different methodological approaches of writing to open up a kaleidoscopic view of different time periods and topics spanning from the academic study and the essay, to personal family recollections. Building Socialist Georgia unveils a story of controversy, an ideology which never became a practical canon: A parallel history of architecture.
This book is designed based on Future Anecdotes Istanbul’s graphic design works for the traveling exhibition of Goethe-Institut, The City of Tomorrow.
Pattern design for the book