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Архитектура советской дипломатии
The post-war decades became a period of "embassy boom" in architecture. According to the memoirs of Soviet architects, the process of designing embassies differed from their experience of working on other objects. The architect was given relative freedom in terms of technology, materials and artistic solutions, so here, it would seem, like nowhere else, he had the opportunity to create an original and memorable work. But this freedom was fraught with a dilemma that is characteristic of such structures: should the building interact with the real spatial context of the city and the cultural context of the host country as a whole and forgive this contact in architectural forms, or, like a mirror, reflect the architectural reality of its own country? How to diplomatically answer this question - each architect chose for himself.