Faculty: The Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment Department: Architecture Programme: MSc programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences Studio: Explore Lab 17 Mass-Housing: Tendencies and Modernization Research paper Author: M. Šutavičius, Study number: 4254791 Email:
[email protected] Mentor: Y. J. Cuperus May 2014 2 Contents 1. INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................................... 5 Method description ............................................................................................................................................ 6 2. INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT ................................................................................................................................. 7 3. MASS-HOUSING IN SOVIET UNION ................................................................................................................... 19 Policy ................................................................................................................................................................. 20 Utopia ............................................................................................................................................................... 20 Pollution............................................................................................................................................................ 21 Construction ....................................................................................................................................................