Of Goats and Dragons Buzkashi, played avidly across Central Asia, is a game of superlatives: the most exhilarating, violent and spectacular contest to involve men and horses. A kind of Central Asian polo, buzkashi is played on horseback between two teams of riders competing to win possession of a headless goat, calf or sheep carcass, which is then carried and thrown across the opposition's goal line. Leo Docherty dives into the fray. Photographs by Christopher Herwig. On Central Asian TracksSetting off with only the travelogue of an eighteenth century Sufi mystic and a book on the Muslim shrines of Xinjiang, historian Alexandre Papas and photographer Lisa Ross observe the 'cult of saints' as they follow along the holy paths of the Taklamakan Desert in search of Xinjiang's active Sufi shrines. steppe Guide: Issyk Kul This glorious alpine lake and its environs offer unlimited possibilities for adventure and exploration. Set deep in the heart of the TianShan at 1,600 m above sea level and long cherished as the jewel of Central Asia, Issyk Kul - the world's second largest alpine lake - occupies a special place in the Kyrgyz heart. Rowan Stewart and Susie Weldon take us there. Photographs by Christoph Schutz.Cookery: Noodles from the Other China Xinjiang is a noodle-eater's paradise. During their travels there over the last twenty-five years, including recent research trips for their latest book, Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China, Naomi Duguid and Jeffrey Alford have eaten - and have watched people knead, shape and cook - a stupendous quantity of noodles. Photographs by Richard Jung.Top Ten Monuments to LeninDespite Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's request before his death that no memorial be created for him, by the 1980s there were statues of him in every city, town and village in the Soviet Union - honouring the man and symbolising socialist idealism. In addition, streets, squares, collective farms, medals, wheat hybrids and even an asteroid were named after the architect of Soviet Communism. Photographs by Christopher Herwig, Paul Lowe, Kurmanbek Makeshev, Vladimir Pirogov and Michael Steen. Snapshot: Boomtown Birthday The best views of Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, are had from Baiterek, a spherical observation tower nearly 100 m tall symbolising a Kazakh legend in which a mythical bird lays a golden egg in a poplar tree. From this vantage point, the scale of Astana's construction is clearly visible: cranes and skyscrapers rise in all directions, in stark contrast with the vast emptiness of the surrounding steppe.

Steppe Issue 4

Travel

Asia

DOM Publishers

A Tale of Two Cities: Kabul and Herat In a time of relative peace and prosperity, there is a battle afoot to prevent the demolition of the historic centres of Kabul and Herat in the name of 'development'. Jolyon Leslie and Habib Noori report from the front lines of this much quieter struggle between heritage and modernisation. Anna Akhmatova in TashkentAnna Akhmatova, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was persecuted by the Soviet authorities, yet renowned for her loyalty to her beloved Russia and its citizens. Sian Glaessner describes the poet's evacuation from Leningrad to Tashkent during World War II and the effect it had on her poetry, while Elaine Feinstein imagines a day in the life of the poet during her exile, when she lived in a small room on the top floor of the 'Hostel for Moscow Writers' at 7 Karl Marx Street.. Photographs by Max Penson. Water in Central Asia: From Melons to Madness Water is power in Central Asia. In the second part of our survey into this scarce commodity, Alexander Morrison looks at the many ways in which it is controlled and exploited, from simple wells to gigantic engineering projects. Steppe Guide: Eagle Hunting Hunting with golden eagle on the Eurasian steppe is a tradition dating back centuries, if not millennia. Today it is kept alive and well by Kazakh nomads living both inside and outside the borders of Kazakhstan. Cookery: A Pamiri Harvest Demonstrating that you are what you eat, photographer Matthieu Paley hunts for wild food with Parpi Shah, 'King of the Mountain Grass', in the mountains of southeastern Tajikistan. Top Ten: Small Embroideries Nick Fielding looks at the diversity of these finely-stitched everday objects, from bags for utensils to babies' bibs.

Steppe 7

Kelaart, Lucy

Today, many loudly proclaim the need to conserve resources. Norway puts this into practice, consistently implementing the principle of environmental protection – not only through the use of innovative technologies, but also by making buildings and developed areas as friendly as possible to both humans and the natural world. Although Norwegian architects face a variety of challenges, they often share a similar approach: whether for a footbridge, a viewing platform, a large office complex, or an urban development, their focus is on our relationship to nature. This comprehensive guide showcases 150 architectural objects realised in Norway in the twenty-year period from 2000 to 2020. The book covers the country’s largest and most visited cities – Oslo, Stavanger, and Bergen – as well as the Norwegian Scenic Routes, one of the nation’s most significant infrastructure projects which promotes its breathtaking landscapes and its magnificent architecture. The selection of projects presents a wide range of artistic techniques, typologies, and scales; these are not only united by their location, but also by their diversity.

Norway: Architectural Guide

Arts & Photography

Martovitskaya, Anna

History & Criticism

Prefabricated housing, often associated with blighted urban land­scapes and monotonous grey boxes, has evolved into an approach to housing with a wealth of aesthetic and structural possibilities. Modern methods of constructing and assembling prefabricated buildings - methods that can be traced back to the 19th century - are going through a renaissance. This is true across the world, from Vancouver and New York to London and Berlin through to Astana and Singapore. Moreover, prefabrication now serves a wider range of purposes than ever before. In Moscow, Europe's largest metropolitan area, it is primarily used as a means to provide affordable homes. But in some countries, prefabrication is surprisingly also used to build exclusive, upmarket properties.This construction and design manual presents a range of different production and assembly methods currently used in the field of prefabricated housing. It particularly focuses on efficiency, sustainability, and market relevance, and presents strategies for organizing processes along with best-practice examples that reflect the latest trends. The manual also explores the historical development of prefabricated housing in order to discover its full architectural potential. Finally, it outlines ten design parameters for prefabricated housing and presents 15 noteworthy examples, making a fresh contribution to the debate on affordable housing today.

Prefabricated Housing: Construction and Design Manual

MEUSER, PHILIPP

Architecture

The townhouse has been playing an essential role again in the debate on architecture and urban design for about ten years now. That is particularly true in Berlin. Since the state has withdrawn from programs to build subsidized housing, new attention has focused on a renaissance of the inner city through individual, privately financed residential projects. In this volume of the Construction and Design Manual series, Hans Stimmann, who was Senate Building Director for Urban Development in Berlin for more than ten years and a pioneer of the current townhouse boom, summarises the townhouse's political strategies, roots in architectural history and theoretical concepts. The author also analyses around fifty examples and situates them in their urban context.> large-format photographs (exteriors/interiors)> true to scale drawings and plans> aerial photographs of the urban context> comparison of construction costs

Townhouses Berlin: Construction and Design Manual

Stimman, Hans

Flexibility, safety and accessibility: in addition to the current technical, energy and environmental standards, school buildings require innovative structural solutions which extend far beyond the building design. The authors guide the reader through the cultural development of school buildings, presenting stakeholders as well as historical and contemporary learning concepts, defining organizational tasks, formulating quality standards of contemporary learning and working as well as presenting typologies and spatial organizational models, which were created in cooperation with the foundation, the Montag Stiftung, as part of the project Guidelines for Productive School Buildings. 32 international school buildings are presented through detailed drawings and photographs, arranged according to their levels of education. Ten design parameters for school construction round off this practical design manual. With contributions by Natascha Meuser, Hans Wolfgang Hoffmann,Thomas Müller and Jochem Schneider.

School Buildings: Construction and Design Manual

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Architectural Guide Delhi

Bansal A.

Monumental mosaics were created throughout the USSR, but they played a special role in its capital. While in other Soviet cities and republics monumental mosaics became common in the 1960s, in Moscow mosaic was used for art-deco works and social realist 'pictures'. The entire history of Soviet art is thus reflected in Moscow's metro stations, palaces of culture, military museums, hospitals, schools, and prefabricated houses. Today, many of these works are disappearing before our eyes, victims of destruction or dismantling; the majority are not listed as under state protection, and a great number of their authors are unknown. This book collects 140 Soviet-era mosaics and arranges them in chronological order. It contains four main sections - Art Deco, Socialist Realism, Modernism, and Postmodernism - and includes a list of 295 mosaics that have been identified. This guide shows well-known works by Aleksander Deyneka, Pavel Korin, Boris Chernyshev, Evgeny Ablin, Yury Korolev, and Leonid Polishchuk side by side with mosaics by artists whose names were for a long time absent from the history of art and architecture. The idea for it came from American photographer James Hill, who spent three years seeking out and photographing works of Soviet monumental art that have not received the attention they deserve and that in the post-Soviet period have often been dismissed as propaganda.

Moscow: Art for Architecture: Soviet Mosaics from 1935 to 1990

Hill, James

Petrova, Anna

Kudelina, Evgeniya

What exactly gave rise to the phantasmagoric buildings of starchitects such as Zaha Hadid? How did interactions between artists and architects affect architectural production during the twentieth century? Which exhibitions and publications have had a lasting influence over the last century? This concise volume chronicles the movements and trends in architecture over the past 120 years. Written as a narrative but split into succinct sections, it makes for clear and compelling reading. In his pithy and personal style, the Rome-based critic and archi­tectural historian Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi explores the events and motivations that have driven the work of leading architects from Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn, to Rem Koolhaas and Kazuyo Sejima. With over 700 illustrations and a comprehensive list of practitioners, this insightful chronicle is both visually appealing and easy to navigate. It covers buildings from across the globe and details projects by contemporary architects, bringing readers fully up to date.

The History of Architecture (Spanish Ed.): From the Avant-Garde Towards the Present: A Comprehensive Chronicle of 20th and 21st Century Buildings (Spanish Edition)

Prestinenza Puglisi, Luigi

Since 2011, the German government has been implementing a policy phasing out nuclear power. Over a period of seven years, Bernhard Ludewig photographed the country's atomic landscape and history, keeping a visual record of the buildings and the work performed in them. The images, collected here, create a unique panorama of usually inaccessible spaces. On show are the plants' operations - processes including the opening of the reactor and the loading of Castor containers for transport - and interiors, such as control rooms and cooling towers. The book follows the journey of uranium from enrichment through reprocessing to final storage, and shows research spanning from Otto Hahn's discovery of fission to thorium and breeder reactor prototypes. In total 55 sites are represented, and images of research reactors, training facilities, and Chernobyl's sarcophagus provide a further look behind closed doors. The Nuclear Dream offers an insight into a disappearing world whose rooms and technology often appear sacred. It is a fitting tribute to an era of boundless energy - one whose blue glow captured a generation and proclaimed the start of a new era.

The Nuclear Dream: The Hidden World of Atomic Energy

Ludewig, Bernhard

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