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Christina E. Crawford 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Christina E. Crawford 🇺🇦
@cecrawford_
Historian of architecture + urbanism | socialist space + social housing | Assoc. Prof. @EmoryUniversity | Spatial Revolution https://t.co/Lg8ul43nr8 | DMD https://t.co/G2QtrZJV1o
May 20, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
I was curious about the architectural history of #AzovStal, so I pulled out this 1935 Soviet publication on industrial building. Azovstal (right) was begun around 1930, @ the end of the first Five-Year Plan (FFYP). It was modeled on the Gary, Indiana (USA) steel plant (left). 🧵 Technical drawings of two steel plants from the 1930s: Gary, Like many Soviet industrial complexes from the 1930s, #AzovStal's design hewed to US design standards, because the USSR took advantage of the 1929 stock market crash to hire US, German, Czech and other underemployed industrial architects & engineers to assist with FFYP projects.