Soviet Metro Stations
Christopher Herwig, Owen Hatherley
FUEL Publishing, September 2019

Hardcover | 8 x 6-1/2 inches | 240 pages | English | ISBN: 978-0995745568 | $34.95

Publisher's Description:
Following his best-selling quest for Soviet Bus Stops, Christopher Herwig has completed a subterranean expedition ? photographing the stations of each Metro network of the former USSR. From extreme marble and chandelier opulence to brutal futuristic minimalist glory, Soviet Metro Stations documents this wealth of diverse architecture. Along the way Herwig captures individual elements that make up this singular Soviet experience: neon, concrete, escalators, signage, mosaics and relief sculptures all combine build an unforgettably vivid map of the Soviet Metro.
With an essay by leading architecture, politics and culture author and journalist Owen Hatherley.dDAB Commentary:
Before this year's publication of Soviet Metro Stations, photographer Christopher Herwig released two books with FUEL, both of them documenting bus stops in former Soviet countries. Although I've only seen spreads of those books on the publisher's website (Soviet Bus Stops, Soviet Bus Stops II), they exhibit a restless soul ? one who traversed 45,000 kilometers (28,000 miles) in 15 countries ? who has an eye for both the mundane and the extraordinary. That Herwig honed in on bus stops says as much about his attitude to capturing the built environment as it does about the artists and designers who cr...