Frederic Chaubin: Soviet SF Style

13 Sep 2006 Category: Architecture, Events & Exhibitions, Features, Photography, Worldwide

Frederic Chaubin: Soviet SF Style

Polytechnic University (Minsk, Belarus, 1981) © Frederic Chaubin

Frederic Chaubin, who was born in Cambodia of a French father and Spanish mother, is chief editor of the French magazine Citizen K, and also a photographer who has been attracted by strange architecture in the former Soviet Union. The photos he takes in countries like Lithuania, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Georgia, reveal an extraordinary, almost sci-fi world. Today, PingMag takes you to the world of Soviet style architecture with Frederic Chaubin himself.

Written by Chiemi

Could you introduce yourself first, please?

My name is Frederic Caubin, I’m chief editor of a French magazine, Citizen K. I’ve been there for 13 years. I began to take photos for the magazine about 6 years ago. Since then, I’ve been producing features, usually related to architecture. I take photos of strange buildings in different places in different countries. Right now, I’m thinking of making a book of Soviet architecture from the 70’s and 80’s because nobody has taken photos of this specific architecture from that period.

It looks like a set from Star Wars.. Wedding Palace (Tbilisi, Georgia, 1985) © Frederic Chaubin

All of the buildings in the photos you took look like something from Sci-Fi films. Were there many of these buildings in the Soviet Union?

Well, these are more like an accident. If you see the photographs all together in a small space like here, you might feel like there are quite a lot of these buildings around, but actually there are very few of them. You have to imagine that if you go to each Russian town you will only find one or two very special buildings there. But most of them are very boring and look very similar, and those here are the exceptions.

Why were they built over 20, 30 years ago?

It is difficult to figure out where the idea came from. The possible reason is because the USSR used to be a huge country with no homogeneity. Also, there were only very few connections to the rest of the world. So, most of the architects didn’t know what was happening outside of the Soviet Union.

The architect who designed this building was influenced by a sketch of an imaginary city drawn by a Russian artist. “Roads Ministry” (Tbilisi, Georgia, 1975) © Frederic Chaubin

Do you usually know in advance exactly where to go to find these buildings?

At the beginning I just found them by chance. But right now I know where they are and I know what they look like. I travel on my own and I usually ask the local national news agency to find someone to help me, or to give me some connections. They are very surprised that I go there just to take photos of old buildings. (laugh)

Where have you been to take those photos apart from the former Soviet Union?

Norway, Mexico, India, Morocco, Italy, Cambodia, Vietnam…. I’ve only had exhibitions about landscape and architecture in Norway and Caucasia though.

Local people call this building the Monster.. “Soviet Palace” (Kalinigrad, Russia, 1975) © Frederic Chaubin

Is there any message behind these photos, or is there anything you want the audience to feel?

Some kind of emotion… could be nostalgia. What did you think when you first saw them?

I saw a photo of Druzhba Holiday Center on your postcard first and I was simply amazed by the look of the building, and wondered if it still existed or not because I thought this was taken in the 70s or so. It’s probably because of the atmosphere that this building creates. And this could be a very Japanese thing, but I immediately thought about earthquakes…

I shot these photos in the last 5 years, so most of them still exist but some of them have disappeared and some of them have been transformed.

This building was a joint venture between the Russians and Czechs. Czechoslovakia was the only country which sent a man to space with a Russian launcher, and they also had a satellite launcher. So it’s related to space style. When this was built, the Department of Defense in America thought this was some kind of rocket launcher. The secret service was very much afraid of it, but in fact this is just a summer camp. By the way, this one has been built with earthquake-resistant construction.

“Druzhba Holiday Center Hall” (Yalta, Ukraine, 1984)© Frederic Chaubin

I heard that this is your first visit to Japan. What do you think about architecture in Tokyo? Have you taken any photos?

I haven’t yet, but I’m looking for places to take photos. Architecture in Tokyo is very beautiful and very impressive. It’s much more impressive than these buildings. This is more like a monster collection, like collecting strange things. But buildings around here are very beautiful.

Do you have any plans for the future?

Going to Armenia to keep on working on the collection. And also I’m planning to build a website with these photos. I’m still thinking of how to do it, but probably showing a map and just click the map and you will see a photo of that area.

Thank you very much for showing us a great collection of photographs today, Frederic. I really want to visit one of them in the future too.


Paul Smith SPACE in Jingumae

Paul Smith SPACE in Jingumae

You can see more of his amazing work at his first solo exhibition “Soviet SF Style” at Paul Smith SPACE in Jingumae till Sunday 24th September. If you don’t have a chance to visit there, check out his magazine “Citizen K“!

86 Comments

  1. Very nice buildings! The “nostalgia” mentioned ties in with the ostalgie we’ve been feeling here in Berlin for the last few years.

    It’s funny, the article feels like it’s based on a book, but the book seems at this point to be only a vague possibility for the future. So it’s a bit like a web pecha kucha session. Good luck, Frederic, this project definitely deserves a quality publisher when it’s finished!

    Posted by: Momus on September 14th, 2006 at 2:27 am

  2. [...] между тем по дороге назад почти всегда рассыпано нечто удивительное: будь то немая архитектура — застывшие корабли у чужого причала, или, наоборот, мы сами — восхитительные аргонавты неизведанного космоса.    [...]

    Posted by: .log : экскурс on September 14th, 2006 at 2:49 am

  3. I daily come here to read what is going on on the design universe. I work with that and I am always interested in how a simple life thing could have so many different versions and how sometimes just one gets our attention.
    So, reading today about these buildings, I couldn’t help think about 3 examples of that kind of architecture:
    Contemporary Resort at Walt Disney World - http://hotels.about.com/library/photos/wdwcr/contemporary2lg.jpg
    Space Mountain at Walt Disney’s Magic Kingdom - http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/TeenonSax/Space%20Mountain/SMand50th064.jpg
    Petrobras building (Rio de Janeiro) - http://www.arrakeen.ch/rio/107%20%20Aqueduto%20da%20Carioca%20&%20Petrobrás%20Building.JPG
    Hope ya’ll agree with me.
    Keep up with the good work!!

    Posted by: cbrown on September 14th, 2006 at 4:17 am

  4. Very interesting interview. I had no idea that buildings like these exist in the former Soviet Union.

    The buildings remind me greatly of the 1970’s type architecture, using lots of geometric shapes, yet there’s something about them that make them unique. Perhaps it is the landscape surrounding the buildings.

    Anyway, great article!

    Posted by: A7KNIGHT on September 14th, 2006 at 9:11 am

  5. Top amazing!
    Thanks! Chiemi~

    Posted by: x-noise on September 14th, 2006 at 10:46 am

  6. Great photos. Can you tell me if you have made a publiction of these buildings or indeed if one exists as i would love to use them to show my students in London. Keep up the good work!

    Posted by: Luke Chandresinghe on September 14th, 2006 at 2:33 pm

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    Posted by: handcircus » Blog Archive » Soviet SciFi Architecture on September 14th, 2006 at 6:07 pm

  8. Wow. These are amazing, and yet also horrible. I love the building at Yalta. It has no consideration for the landscape around it, but yet is an amazingly impressive building.

    Posted by: Adrian on September 15th, 2006 at 12:47 am

  9. The architecture is astonishing indeed; and the photography of Frederic Chaubin emphasizes their eerie quality.
    But at the same time this is exactly my point of critique: they seem to have landed from outer space in an ‘innocent’ landscape, whereas they are expressing an ideology, utopian and totalitarian. Too often architecture is being considered ‘mere’ form; as an esthetical-materialistic (strange word in this respect) object.
    Stroom in The Hague is preparing an exhibition with Romanian-Dutch artist Calin Dan. He is concerned with, as he calls it, ‘emotional architecture’. He has a strong focus on the non-materialist aspects of a building, it socio-political history, its mental status, etc. And the synopsis of one of his videoworks “Trip” reads: “‘Trip’ has its starting point in the main oeuvre of Estonian architect Raine Karp – the concert hall he designed for the city of Tallinn between 1975-1980. Considered by the locals to be the most important building realized in the country, Linnahall is the embodiment of the historical period of its realisation, a time capsule preserving the utopian ideas of centralized power and of egalitarian modernism. Next to that, Linna Hall is an extreme example of how architecture can stir public emotions in the present time of corporate predominance.”

    Posted by: Arno van Roosmalen on September 15th, 2006 at 1:12 am

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    Posted by: FADblog » Blog Archive » Frederic Chaubin: Soviet SF Style on September 16th, 2006 at 11:46 pm

  11. what about this one, for all designlovers: http://anarchitecture.blogspot.com/2006/09/beauty-of-evil.html

    Posted by: Arno van Roosmalen on September 18th, 2006 at 9:19 pm

  12. [...] Frederic Chaubin ein Architekt der in der ehemaligen UDSSR taetig war, gibt PINGMAG ein Interview, das ich nur empfehlen kann. [...]

    Posted by: ArchiSpass » Blog Archive » Frederic Chaubin - Soviet Architektur on September 19th, 2006 at 8:57 pm

  13. [...] Набрел на такой вот взгляд “со стороны” на “советскую” архитектуру. Дальше - мысль: даже в “Империи Зла” было не без шедевров. А тут - перед глазами МИЛЛИАРДНАЯ нация, НЕ ИМЕЮЩАЯ АРХИТЕКТУРЫ как таковой. Круто. [...]

    Posted by: Lost in India » Про архитектуру on September 20th, 2006 at 3:26 pm

  14. [...] Набрел на такой вот взгляд “со стороны” на “советскую” архитектуру. Дальше - мысль: даже в “Империи Зла” было не без шедевров. А тут - перед глазами МИЛЛИАРДНАЯ нация, НЕ ИМЕЮЩАЯ АРХИТЕКТУРЫ как таковой. Круто. [...]

    Posted by: Lost in India » Про архитектуру on September 20th, 2006 at 3:26 pm

  15. Эти ебанашки все равно нихуя не поймут

    Posted by: Anonymous on September 20th, 2006 at 6:57 pm

  16. Photos might be ok, the background research unveils impressive mistakes and maybe even desinformation.

    Let’s go through the text:
    _ “I’m thinking of making a book of Soviet architecture from the 70’s and 80’s because nobody has taken photos of this specific architecture from that period.” - sorry, all the buildings shown above were published both before and after competion in the respective professional media, like “Architecture of the USSR”, etc. These magazines are easily availiable in National Libraries throughout the globe.

    _”The possible reason is because the USSR used to be a huge country with no homogeneity.” - sorry, ever though of architectural imagination? Of them britalism, metabolism and the others? These styles were present throughout the world - quite to the contrary with the following remark,
    _”So, most of the architects didn’t know what was happening outside of the Soviet Union.” - sorry, we were! It’s rather the other way round - the westerners didn’t know, or didn’t want to know on what’s happening in the East.

    _”Czechoslovakia was the only country which sent a man to space with a Russian launcher, and they also had a satellite launcher.” - sorry, almost every country of the socialist block have had cosmonauts that went to fly agound the globe on soviet eqipment. There were Poles and East German ones, and even Mongol.

    Posted by: d.b.suchin on September 20th, 2006 at 7:04 pm

  17. Согласен с последними тремя постами :-)

    Posted by: Anonymous on September 20th, 2006 at 9:25 pm

  18. Автор - мудак. Здания замечательные.

    Posted by: Anonymous on September 21st, 2006 at 1:25 am

  19. Елки! Такую красоту строили! Я не знал, жаль. Великолепно, оригинально, восхитительно просто.
    Автору статьи - зачет, однозначно, хоть ты и не понимаешь ни хера, чурка дречепыжная.

    Posted by: Assa on September 21st, 2006 at 1:56 am

  20. Говно здания. Вычурные нагромождения из низкокачественного железобетона не могут называться архитектурой. Внутренняя планировка - отдельная песня. Жуть.

    Posted by: Anonymous on September 21st, 2006 at 2:31 am

  21. О, судя по устойчивому интересу к продуктам выделения, перед нами крупный специалист по архитектуре. Пещи ещщо!

    Posted by: Anonymous on September 21st, 2006 at 2:59 am

  22. мне нравятся странные вещи.

    Posted by: omant on September 21st, 2006 at 8:33 am

  23. очень красивые здания, некоторые - просто фантасмагория… не хуже всяких френков гэрри:))

    Posted by: Елена on September 21st, 2006 at 3:10 pm

  24. “Soviet Palace” in Kaliningrad is still unfinished (about 20 years)

    Posted by: Pavel on September 21st, 2006 at 4:54 pm

  25. It’ll never be finished

    Posted by: Anonymous on September 21st, 2006 at 6:57 pm

  26. Я не называл бы их ебанашки. Мягко как то… Припездни? Приезжайте ко мне в страшное Нью Джерси - какая в жопу архетиктура…

    Posted by: KOka on September 22nd, 2006 at 4:40 am

  27. Debussy - claire de lune.

    Posted by: Biche on September 22nd, 2006 at 4:55 pm

  28. The goverment in Kaliningrad wanna destroy Soviet Palase to rebuild a Germans old Palase that was here untit the WW2

    Posted by: lex on September 23rd, 2006 at 5:35 pm

  29. нормальненьгая такая архитегтура

    Posted by: дизайн сайтов on October 1st, 2006 at 5:33 pm

  30. Anonymous - мудак. Здания замечательные.

    Posted by: Архитектор on October 4th, 2006 at 1:56 am

  31. флешмоб что ли?

    Posted by: Anonymous on October 4th, 2006 at 9:48 am

  32. An addition to your collection :)
    http://www.tema.ru/travel/belarus/MG0434.jpg
    city Bobruisk. Belarus

    Posted by: Anonymous on October 10th, 2006 at 6:40 pm

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  35. Vive L’Internet

    Posted by: Charles Edward Frith on October 20th, 2006 at 3:52 am

  36. Wow! This is some kind of high brutalist modern!?!?
    Wonderful photos! Thank you FC / PingMag!
    and thanks to jmcolberg for the link - I had just discovered Ping coincidentally a few days ago - Love it! ;)

    Posted by: FRC on October 20th, 2006 at 11:21 am

  37. Yes, they do recall scenes from the sci-fi movie Solaris which is one of my favorite USSR movies. What strikes me here is not the way they look but how little these buildings and their architects are known to the people in the outside world. Good job!

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  40. я видел своими глазами
    Polytechnic University (Minsk, Belarus, 1981) и Roads Ministry” (Tbilisi, Georgia, 1975)
    очень гармоничные и красивые здания, которые действительно впечатляют.

    Posted by: алексей on December 4th, 2006 at 9:45 pm

  41. Офигенные здания! Мощь с характером

    Posted by: KaTep on December 19th, 2006 at 10:39 am

  42. Грузинские - просто сказка, и то, что тут сказали о том, что они не вписываются в ландшафт - глупость.

    Posted by: KaTep on December 19th, 2006 at 10:44 am

  43. Yeaaahhhhhh COPYRIGHT FREDERIC CHAUBIN !!!!
    GOOD LUCKKKKKKKKKKK !!!
    Wonderful photos (with a tree) !!!

    Posted by: Rozenberg Margaux on January 20th, 2007 at 9:54 am

  44. A-1 !

    Posted by: Rudolf Virchow on January 20th, 2007 at 11:05 am

  45. Delicious!! ПРИЯТНЫЙ

    Posted by: Kandinsky! on February 2nd, 2007 at 11:14 pm

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    Posted by: Internet451 » Soviet architecture of the future on February 5th, 2007 at 5:54 am

  47. lush architecture. Nothing to envy to pretentious western works.

    Posted by: fernando on March 10th, 2007 at 9:05 am

  48. Interesting. Would like to go visit these places in the future.

    Posted by: M.K. on March 11th, 2007 at 11:41 pm

  49. hello mateen khan fom afghanistan
    i like your web site
    you web site is very fachion style
    but i made a this fashion web site

    Posted by: abdul mateen on March 24th, 2007 at 1:46 am

  50. Any seed of an idea seems to occasionally have a physical manifestation… It keeps one trucking…

    Tom

    Posted by: Tomi on April 5th, 2007 at 12:36 am

  51. [...] era USSR. There are not too many photo’s available online, but there’s a neat little Q & A with Chaubin over at PingMag with several amazing examples of his work. It’s hard to believe that these buildings are [...]

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  52. “Anonymous - мудак. Здания замечательные.”
    согласна!

    Posted by: мау on April 18th, 2007 at 9:41 pm

  53. А я вот в Polytechnic University(БНТУ нынче) учусь.Кста на Архитектурном факультете)Здание мот и ничё внешне, но нефигова напороли с вентиляцией остеклением и ещё монго чем.Зимой холод,сквозняки…Через год кап ремонт бует.

    Posted by: Студент on April 23rd, 2007 at 10:04 pm

  54. When I first saw the Roads Ministry photo, I thought it must be a fake, a computer generated image. The Wedding Palace is just as impressive and “other worldly”. It’s nice to see older architecture that is so inspiring and unique. I hope they still exist and are around for centuries to come.

    Posted by: JeffC on May 5th, 2007 at 3:24 am

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  56. Dont like russians talking…

    Posted by: Yulia on May 19th, 2007 at 6:59 pm

  57. anyone know anything more about the Tbilsi Central Square (Georgia) by Otar Kalandarishvily, 1983 …the curves he used on that building were remarkable…if anyone knows of any more info let us all know!! …great exhibit by Frederic Chaubin btw

    Posted by: frank on June 6th, 2007 at 5:24 am

  58. Hello, fantastic pics. I’ve added two Georgian ones to my blog. (With the reference to the photographer, naturally) Hope you don’t mind.

    Daikide

    Posted by: Daikide on June 22nd, 2007 at 12:44 am

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  62. Просто низкоползающим неучам, самым прямым потомкам обезьян, не дано понять той грандиозности, что когда-то была у великого советского народа. Жаль, не дали дальше развиваться, свиноёбы.

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  64. Very interesting architectural style. It clearly has the communism architectural influence of the 60s and 70s but there is more to it - in a sense futurism with a heavy and solid feel, which was so typical of soviet buildings. I like it.

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  71. Hello from Saint Petersburg!

    There are also some others interested in Soviet architecture of 60-70’s. I’ve had several exhibitions of that subject, first one in 2003. Check out some of my Soviet stuff at:

    http://www.flickriver.com/photos/hyrskylahti/tags/soviet+architecture

    All the best!
    Sami

    Posted by: Sami Hyrskylahti on October 4th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

  72. I’m profoundly impressed by our very own Soviet architecture of the 1970-1980-s, it simply takes my breath away. Solemn, gloomy and futuristic, with much attention to the details. Too bad these buildings are gradually decaying… Modern ’shoebox’-style houses are really ugly, made of cheap materials and won’t last long. U.S.S.R. forever! Мало в жизни осталось прекрасного…

    Posted by: Yuri from Тёплый Стан on November 15th, 2008 at 5:33 am

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  83. [...] } Frederic Chaubin კამბოჯაში დაბადებული ბიჭია, ფრანგი [...]

    Posted by: Frederic Chaubin და თბილისი « So Indie Blog on October 25th, 2009 at 3:26 am

  84. [...] grandes los rusos! exclamaba un amigo al enviarme el artículo [soviet sf style] sobre Frederic Chaubin donde sale este proyecto para el Ministerio de Carreteras de Georgia en [...]

    Posted by: esas influencias « jesarqit on November 4th, 2009 at 10:38 am

  85. [...] Also: http://pingmag.jp/2006/09/13/frederic-chaubin-soviet-sf-style/ [...]

    Posted by: JUSTIN GODARD /BLOG - Soviet Sci-Fi on February 16th, 2010 at 9:54 am

  86. [...] Which in a manner of speaking, it does. This concrete and glass behemoth is a great example of ‘Soviet Sci-Fi” architecture- a term coined by Frederic Chaubin, editor of Citizen K, to describe 1960s and 70s [...]

    Posted by: Berlinchester at the Czech Embassy « Berlinchester on February 23rd, 2010 at 3:21 am

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