Mick Hartley

From FUEL publishers, a look at holiday architecture behind the Iron Curtain:

The first photography book to focus solely on the architecture of hospitality in Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet landscape, Socialist Hotels documents 153 examples from 31 countries. These state-constructed buildings were used by visiting government workers, ordinary citizens – and even the occasional capitalist guest from the West. Today they are a fascinating legacy of a social and cultural idiosyncrasy. Increasingly subject to modernisation or demolition, this publication provides a unique survey of an architectural diaspora, documenting remaining examples of this disappearing phenomenon.

Photos by Elena Amabili:

^{Hotel Druzhba, Crimea}

^{Hotel Avesto, Tajikistan}

^{Hotel Katowice, Poland}

^{Hotel Pusynas, Lithuania}

^{Sevan Writers’ House, Armenia}

^{Motel Miljevina, Bosnia and Herzegovina}

^{Motel Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina}

^{Hotel Cosmos, Moldova}

^{Hotel Pomorie, Bulgaria}

^{[Photos: Elena Amabili]}