Mart Kalm - Modernism in Estonia: From Industrialist's Villa to Kolkhoz Centre
Modernism.lt. Influences, Ideologies, Heritage
Why Estonia has been eager to follow Modernism?
What can Modernism in architecture tell us about the country?
Soviet Estonian Modernism as continuation of pre-war capitalist Modernism?
How it was possible to practice the avant garde architecture in Soviet Estonia of stagnation period?
Art History professor, critic, dean in the Estonian Academy of arts. Main fields of research – interwar architecture and culture in Estonia, modern Nordic and Baltic architecture. One of two his thesis of dissertations he made in Moscow, gave lectures in Columbian university. Active member of DOCOMOMO.
Although a survey book it tries to interpret how the Modernism found its way to Estonia. My aim has been to explain the similarities and differences of pre-war capitalist and post-war socialist modernisation in Estonian built environment.
