Training the Soviet architectural avant-garde II

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Various VKhUTEMAS projects

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For more posts like this, see also these previous entries:

  1. Space architecture: Training the Soviet avant-garde (1921-1930)
  2. Train stations, bread factories, and the “New City”
  3. Nikolai Ladovskii’s studio at VKhUTEMAS (1920-1930)
  4. Models and Sketches from Nikolai Ladovskii’s Studio at VKhUTEMAS-VKhUTEIN (1922-1930)
  5. Georgii Krutikov, The Flying City (VKhUTEMAS diploma project, 1928)
  6. Lidiia Komarova, architectress of the Soviet avant-garde
  7. Bauhaus color

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Sketches.

Models.

Spatial exercise, Nikolai Ladovskii’s studio (1927)
Spatial exercise, Nikolai Ladovskii’s studio (1927)
Spatial exercise, Nikolai Ladovskii’s studio (1927)
Spatial exercise, Nikolai Ladovskii’s studio (1927)
Spatial exercise, Nikolai Ladovskii’s studio (1927)
Spatial exercise, Nikolai Ladovskii’s studio (1927)
Iurii Spasskii, Nikolai Ladovskii’s workshop, Grain elevator, revelation and expression of form, 1922
R146 Vkhutemas Study Model Construction 001
R147 Vkhutemas Model Construction 002
R145 Vkhutemas Model Construction 001

Students.

Nikolai Ladovskii and students at VKhUTEMAS, 1922

3 thoughts on “Training the Soviet architectural avant-garde II”

  2. I wonder what these buildings would look like if they were built with materials that age with a nice patina, instead of the rubbish stuff that looks shiny new the first year and then acquires the charisma of a plastic bottle left in the woods.

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