| Summary: | This text suggests a new perspective on the French architectural historian Anatole Kopp’s writings on Soviet architecture. His seminal work, Town and Revolution (1967), is one of the first Western books on Soviet architecture after the Second World War. This article analyses Town and Revolution through the optics of Kopp’s political and professional convictions, his experience of visiting the Soviet Union, and his attitudes towards the crisis of French architecture in the late 1960s. From this perspective, Town and Revolution is more a manifesto than a historical book, because Anatole Kopp considered the social and ethical approach of the Soviet architecture of the 1920s as a working method, a possible solution for the crisis of French architecture.
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