Типизация

Khrushchev’s rhetoric sternly rejected any departure from typical projects: The school, the hospital, and especially the movie theater should be of one type. What could one possibly invent for a movie theater? It consists of an external shell that protects from the elements, with chairs placed inside – that is all. Here, any attempt at architectural creativity occurs at the expense of wasting public resources. If one has only one building type to work with, one does not have room to become wasteful.58

58 “O realizatsii resheniy noyabr’skogo Plenuma TsK KPSS”, Presidium TsK KPSS, November 29, (Moscow, 1962), 120.