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Balázs and Eisenstein, an exchange on the future of cinema (1926)

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Balázs’ “star-ism” is the individualism of bourgeois countries in general. Someone has to be the “star.” Yesterday the actor. This time the cameraman. Tomorrow the lighting technician. Continue reading →

Building in empty spaces (1959)

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The better world that the great architecture forms and depicts in an anticipatory way consists of the stones of life as a real task vivis ex lapidibus. Continue reading →

Moisei Ginzburg, competition entry for the Palace of the Soviets (1931)

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Ginzburg’s Palace of the Soviets was without a doubt one of his most futuristic proposals to date, almost resembling a landed spaceship turned toward the Kremlin. Continue reading →

“Gay errancy”: Hypermoderns (postmoderns)

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“The principal characteristic of the ‘modern’ is constant self-criticism: gnawing doubts accompanied modernity in its journey, and the critique of the concepts of linear history and progress is intrinsic to both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.” Tafuri Continue reading →

Period photographs of Soviet avant-garde built exteriors, 1926-1934

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These period photographs should attest to the built legacy of the early architectural avant-garde in the Soviet Union, even if the window during which such pieces of architecture could have been realized was extremely brief. Lest we forget. Continue reading →

Ernst May and the May Brigade in the Soviet Union (1930-1937)

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The German socialist architect Ernst May and his team of modernist builders from Frankfurt participate in the planning of new socialist dwellings in the USSR, 1930-1937. Continue reading →