{"product_id":"lithuanian-architects-assess-the-soviet-era-the-1992-oral-history-tapes-e-book","title":"Lithuanian Architects Assess the Soviet Era: The 1992 Oral History Tapes (e-book)","description":"\u003ch6 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca title=\"Lithuanian_Architects_LAPAS_excerpt_from_the_book\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/6243\/8275\/files\/Lithuanian_Architects_LAPAS_excerpt_from_the_book.pdf?v=1770025996\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eCLICK HERE TO READ AN EXCERPT\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"68\" data-end=\"543\"\u003eThe legends of Lithuanian architecture who shaped modern Vilnius – Algimantas Nasvytis, Vytautas Edmundas Čekanauskas, Vytautas Brėdikis, and Gediminas Baravykas – speak in this book in their authentic voices about how they planned, designed, and built in Lithuania during the Soviet period. They were interviewed in 1992 by a Lithuanian American, then a student at Berkeley and today a professor at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, Jonas V. Mačiuika.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"545\" data-end=\"856\"\u003eThe four interviews are accompanied by introductory essays by architectural historians Prof. John V. Mačiuika and Prof. Marija Drėmaitė, which offer different ways of reading and reflecting on the controversial legacy of the Soviet era and of searching for a personal relationship with one’s living environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"858\" data-end=\"1040\"\u003eThe book is richly illustrated with carefully selected archival photographs and images of the interviewees, as well as photographs from the personal collections of the book’s editor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eACCESSIBILITY\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"description\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe publication complies with EPUB accessibility requirements – EPUB Accessibility 1.1 and WCAG 2.2 AA level – ensuring a high-quality reading experience for all readers, including people with reading difficulties or visual impairments. 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