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Christina E. Crawford 🇺🇦
@cecrawford_
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). 🧵 pic.twitter.com/wbikQ4zIHn
2022-05-20 22:50:35
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Christina E. Crawford 🇺🇦
@cecrawford_
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.
2022-05-20 22:50:36
Christina E. Crawford 🇺🇦
@cecrawford_
#AzovStal was a giant in the Soviet steel ecosystem. The "shop type" was American, compared in this chart with Weirton Steel (in WV, USA), a US Ford plant, a German plant, and Vítkovice Steel (Czech. Rep.). pic.twitter.com/pZ9nG0jbuG
2022-05-20 22:50:36
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Christina E. Crawford 🇺🇦
@cecrawford_
The rapid industrialization of Ukraine in the 1930s that #AzovStal belongs to was a deeply exploitative, colonizing project, and foreign experts enabled both the population displacement that preceded construction & the environmental degradation of the context that followed.
2022-05-20 22:50:37
Christina E. Crawford 🇺🇦
@cecrawford_
There is no debating these historical facts. This negative history is now, however, in dialogue with a countervailing narrative. The #AzovStal complex has become a material artifact and symbol of #Ukrainian resistance.
2022-05-20 22:50:37
Christina E. Crawford 🇺🇦
@cecrawford_
Its meaning has transformed through its persistence over nearly a century, and through its utility to Ukrainians in the war. Architecture *can* absorb new cultural meaning, as @IAPonomarenko's tweet this morning makes clear: twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/…
2022-05-20 22:50:38
Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦
@IAPonomarenko
We’re going to establish the Battle of Azovstal Memorial Museum in there when this is over pic.twitter.com/dRf8CrETcY
2022-05-20 19:18:11
Christina E. Crawford 🇺🇦
@cecrawford_
I'll talk about this and more re: the rocky history of foreign architectural assistance in Ukraine @assc_bbk on Tuesday in London. twitter.com/assc_bbk/statu…
2022-05-20 22:50:38
ASSC / Birkbeck
@assc_bbk
UPCOMING EVENT: Ukrainian Architectural Heritage: Modernism, Identity and Survival 🗓️ Tue 24th May, 5pm 🗺️In-person at Birkbeck - room TBC More details and booking here (free): eventbrite.co.uk/e/342398903337 pic.twitter.com/jVzW78ouHx
2022-05-17 21:55:07
Christina E. Crawford 🇺🇦
@cecrawford_
Images from the remarkable book A. S. Fisenko, ed., Arkhitektura Promyshlennykh Zdanii, vol. 2, Promstroiproekt: Spravochnik Proektirovshchika Promyshlennykh Sooruzhenii 1 (Moscow: Glavnaia redaktsiia stroitel’noi literatury, 1935).
2022-05-20 22:50:39
Britta Ellwanger🇺🇦
@diddabee
@cecrawford_ @_abikaras_ Wow! I loved this! Thank you!!
2022-05-20 23:53:00
Steven Seegel 🇺🇦
@steven_seegel
@cecrawford_ This is great! Part of my family worked in upstate NY at Bethlehem & I think about the 1890s-1900s negotiations between Scranton and Buffalo a lot. I'm less familiar with Gary IN, but I remember how important it is to the urban geography. Lackawanna NY was headquartered in 1902.
2022-05-20 23:54:07
Polly Jones
@drpollyjones
@DrJadeMcGlynn @cecrawford_ @DrJadeMcGlynn: i was about to tag you! @cecrawford_ : this is the thread I've been hoping someone would write! Now for a new Magnetic Mountain please!
2022-05-22 16:54:59
Ianford 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
@Ian__Ford
@cecrawford_ There's an excellent BBC documentary by Adam Curtis on Youtube about Stalinist industrialisation, planning & failed utopianism that discusses how Gary, Indiana was the model they tried to emulate. youtube.com/watch?v=h3gwyH…
2022-05-21 00:44:27
Christina E. Crawford 🇺🇦
@cecrawford_
@Ian__Ford Fantastic, thank you! I’m co-editing a book about these exchanges (Detroit-Moscow-Detroit, MIT Press, 2023) but have never seen this documentary. It’s in my queue!
2022-05-21 00:48:02
Scott D. Murdock
@ScottDMurdock1
@cecrawford_ That looks like a fascinating document! Do you know if this was one of Albert Kahn's plants?
2022-05-21 01:04:39
Eng id🇬🇧
@idYCW166
@cecrawford_ @HN_Schlottman Really interesting piece to an engineer from the Sheffield forge masters era thank you
2022-05-21 02:29:05
The Original YBH
@YBharrington
@cecrawford_ @HN_Schlottman Interesting...I'd like to see that book...
2022-05-21 02:31:23
Jakub Hofman
@Jakub_Hofman81
@cecrawford_ @HN_Schlottman How is that happend the US industry helps soviet to build their own industry to develop the military power before IIww should be considered as a very interesting and promissing topic for somebody who like to present an extraordinary stories.
2022-05-21 02:36:19
Jon Greenwood ✊ 🇺🇦
@JonEarlyDoors
@cecrawford_ twitter.com/kamilkazani/st…
2022-05-21 02:38:02
Kamil Galeev
@kamilkazani
While Albert Kahn was the main planner of Soviet industrialization, hundreds of companies participated. Arthur McKee company designed and supervised construction of the largest Soviet steel plant in Magnitogorsk, modelled after the U.S. Steel Corporation plant in Gary, Indiana pic.twitter.com/bAo1c1c0po
2022-03-20 03:21:22
Christina E. Crawford 🇺🇦
@cecrawford_
@JonEarlyDoors Thanks--I hadn't seen that thread by @kamilkazani. I've covered some of this in my book *Spatial Revolution* bit.ly/3v4k6Mf It's a long and complicated story, of course!
2022-05-21 02:44:28