BRODSKY & UTKIN by Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin with texts by Lois Nesbitt, Aleksandr Mergold and Ronald Feldman

Princeton Architectural Press, 2015, First edition, 88 pp., 9 1/4" X 12 1/4", Hardcover

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From 1978 to 1993, the renowned Soviet "paper architects" Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin created an incredible collection of elaborate etchings depicting outlandish, often impossible, buildings and cityscapes. Funny, cerebral, and deeply human, their obsessively detailed work layers elements borrowed from Egyptian tombs, Ledoux's visionary architecture, Le Corbusier's urban master plans, and other historical precedents in etchings of breathtaking complexity and beauty.