Soviet Asia explores the Soviet modernist architecture of Central Asia. Italian photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego crossed the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, documenting buildings constructed from the 1950s until the fall of the USSR. The resulting images showcase the majestic, largely unknown, modernist buildings of the region. Museums, housing complexes, universities, circuses, ritual palaces – all were constructed using a composite aesthetic.

Many of the buildings shown in Soviet Asia are recorded here for the first time, making this book an important document, as despite the recent revival of interest in Brutalist and Modernist architecture, a number of them remain under threat of demolition. The publication includes two contextual essays, one by Alessandro De Magistris (architect and History of Architecture professor, University of Milan, contributor to the book Vertical Moscow) and the other by Marco Buttino (Modern and Urban History professor, University of Turin, specializing in the history of social change in the USSR).

《苏维埃亚洲》探讨了中亚的苏维埃现代主义建筑。意大利摄影师Roberto Conte 和 Stefano Perego穿越了由哈萨克斯坦、吉尔吉斯斯坦、乌兹别克斯坦和塔吉克斯坦组成的前苏维埃共和国，记录了从20世纪50年代到苏联解体期间建造的大楼。由此而产生的图片展示了该地区雄伟的、大部分不为人知的现代主义建筑。博物馆、住宅区、大学、马戏团、举行仪式的宫殿——这些建筑物的建造都运用了复合美学。

《苏维埃亚洲》中所展示的许多建筑是**次在这本书中被记录，使本书成为一份重要的文件，尽管最近人们重新燃起了对野兽派和现代主义建筑的兴趣，其中的许多建筑都面临着被拆除的威胁。本出版物包括两篇背景介绍性质的文章，一篇来自Alessandro De Magistris（建筑师和米兰大学建筑史教授，《垂直莫斯科》一书的撰稿人），另一篇来自Marco Buttino（都灵大学现代和城市历史教授，专攻苏联社会变迁史）。