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Ivan Leonidov: Artist, dreamer, poet

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Since he first emerged on the architectural scene in the twenties, the name of Ivan Leonidov has acquired legendary status. Continue reading →

Ivan Leonidov’s proposal for the Lenin Institute in Moscow (1927)

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“Leonidov’s Lenin Institute of Librarianship is exceptionally interesting methodologically, and deserves thorough consideration.” Moisei Ginzburg, 1927 Continue reading →

Leonidov’s Narkomtiazhprom [Наркомтяжпром Леонидова], 1934

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“The foundations of the competition of the Narkomtiazhprom building must lie not in splendor, or in the florid trumpery of details and forms, but in simplicity, severity, harmonious dynamism, and pithiness of content.” Leonidov, 1934 Continue reading →

Soviet avant-garde architectural negatives (mid-1920s to early-1930s)

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Blueprint abstractions (all blueprints are anticipatory abstractions) of modernist building projects by Soviet architects Ivan Leonidov, Leonid Vesnin, Aleksandr Vesnin, and Nikolai Krasil’nikov. Continue reading →

Georgii Krutikov, The flying city / Георгий Крутиков, «Летающий город» (1928)

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Georgii Krutikov’s “City of Aerial Paths of Communication” settled for nothing less than the domestication of the planet. Continue reading →

VKhUTEMAS exhibition in Berlin: Rediscovery of a Russian revolutionary art school

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These works speak for themselves, refuting the lie that the October Revolution inevitably led to Stalinism. Continue reading →

Современная архитектура: Organ of architectural modernism in the Soviet Union, 1926-1930

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Architects of OSA, who publish the very well-edited periodical SA, set themselves the task to achieve a communist architecture based on a functional, elementary construction. Continue reading →