对美国的理想化描绘，既是一种愿望，也是一种威胁。从美国革命到苏联解体，这种描绘在影响俄罗斯建筑和城市设计方面发挥了重要作用。Jean-Louis Cohen描述了 "美国化（Amerikanizm）"这个有影响力的概念及其对俄罗斯建筑环境的影响，从早期沙皇对独立革命战争时期的美国的兴趣，到19世纪壮观的世界博览会，再到20世纪用美国方法在俄罗斯建造的百货公司、摩天大楼和工厂。对美国的憧憬也吸引了俄罗斯的前卫派，从埃尔·利西茨基到莫伊塞·金兹堡，科恩探讨了在战略竞争期结束后，两国在世纪中叶和苏联时代末期一直在进行的艺术对话。本书是对俄罗斯建筑中的Amerikanizm的首次重大研究，为我们理解现代建筑及其更广泛的地缘政治做出了及时的贡献。

An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the U.S.S.R.

Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. Jean-

Louis Cohen traces the powerful concept of “Amerikanizm” and its impact on Russia’s built environment from early czarist interest in Revolutionary America, through the spectacular World’s Fairs of the 19th century, to department stores, skyscrapers, and factories built in Russia using American methods during the 20th century. Visions of America also captivated the Russian avant-

garde, from El Lissitzky to Moisei Ginzburg, and Cohen explores the ongoing artistic dialogue maintained between the two countries at the mid-

century and in the late Soviet era, following a period of strategic competition. This first major study of Amerikanizm in the architecture of Russia makes a timely contribution to our understanding of modern architecture and its broader geopolitics.