• Front cover of “Soviet Architectural Design” by Ai Hoshino (Tokyo Kirara), featuring an abandoned Soviet-era bus stop in a mountain landscape.
  • Back cover with roadside bus stop photo and thumbnail grid of sculptural, mosaic-decorated shelters; barcode and publisher details visible.
  • Spine and wrap detail of Ai Hoshino’s Soviet Architectural Design softcover published by Tokyo Kirara.
  • Interior spread: torn Russian posters on a blue wall beside the concrete underside of a Soviet-era bus shelter.
  • Interior spread: A-frame concrete bus shelter on left; emblematic wall mosaic with industrial and atomic motifs on right.
  • Interior spread: dramatic sawtooth concrete canopy with colorful mosaic frieze of waves and stars.
  • Interior spread: Kyrgyzstan chapter—three stone bus shelters in an open steppe landscape near water; wide sky.
  • Interior spread: tiled bus shelters with curved walls and painted murals; weathered structures beside a rural road.
  • Interior spread: close view of blue tile mosaic patterns; opposite page shows a mosaic sign and shelter facade.
  • Interior spread: dogs on a bend near a roadside shelter; opposite page with children-themed ceramic mural.
  • Interior spread: sculptural, flower-like bus stop canopy seen from above; adjacent page with bus stop sign.
  • Close-up of a Soviet-era bus stop with abstract mosaic tiles; from Ai Hoshino’s Soviet Architectural Design (Tokyo Kirara).
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Tokyo Kirara

Soviet Architectural Design

Soviet Architectural Design – Hoshino Ai – Softcover

Hoshino Ai
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Soviet Architectural Design gathers Ai Hoshino’s color photographs of unique, often forgotten bus-stop structures across the former USSR and Central Asia—mosaics, concrete modernism, and roadside relics.

Softcover, 21.0 x 15.0 cm, 0.0 kg , 120 pages
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Description

About the Book

This compact photobook documents the surprising variety of Soviet-era bus stops from the former Eastern Bloc and Central Asia. Rather than mass-produced brutalist blocks, Ai Hoshino shows one-off designs by local architects, students, and artists: sculptural shelters, vivid mosaics, playful geometries and weathered paint that mark the memory of socialist modernity. Shot in color and organized as a quiet survey of roadside architecture, the book bridges documentary photography and design history. Bilingual Japanese/English; 120 pages, 21 × 15 cm, softcover. ISBN 978-4903883717.

Keywords in context: photobook, architecture, brutalism, modernism, bus stops, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, urbanism, ruins, USSR, design heritage.

Softcover, 21.0 x 15.0 cm, 0.0 kg, 120 pages, English/Japanese
ISBN: 9784903883717

About the Author

Ai Hoshino is a Japanese photographer whose work focuses on material culture, infrastructure, and the traces of political history in everyday space. Hoshino’s projects often map typologies—vehicles, buildings, and tools—through restrained, descriptive images that prioritise place and condition over spectacle. Soviet Transport extends this practice to the former Soviet sphere, combining documentary clarity with an archival approach to industrial ruins and post-Soviet environments.

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Publisher / Manufacturer: Tokyo Kirara
Country of origin: Japan
Website: https://www.tokyokirara.com

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