Soviet Avant-Garde Groups and Personas – A Picture Album
The following is a combination of some well-known with numerous rare photographs of the members of the Soviet avant-garde:
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Recommended Architectural Blogs and Articles, along with My Gratitude
I should like to thank the following architecture-related websites and point to some of their best articles: dpr-barcelona: I would like to thank Ethel Baraona not only for her enthusiastic promotion of my site on Twitter and so on, but … Continue reading
Free PDFs of the German Avant-Garde Architectural Journal Wasmuths Monatshefte für Baukunst und Städtebau (1926-1931)
The modernist movement was alive and well in interwar Germany. Not only at the Bauhaus, which stood at the forefront of the avant-garde, under the leadership of Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, and Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, but all over … Continue reading
Репринт Журнала Современная Архитектура [Reprint of the Journal Modern Architecture] (1926-1930)
I came across this advertisement yesterday while searching online for any articles on the early Soviet periodical Modern Architecture. For those who don’t spend their time painstakingly researching long-dead avant-garde movements, this publication might not mean much. However, it’s of … Continue reading
The transformation of utopia under capitalist modernity
Utopianism has always involved the imagination of a better world, a perfected society set against the imperfect society of the present. Continue reading
Bauhaus director Hannes Meyer’s adventures in the Soviet Union, 1930-1936
Today we are involved in the collapse of an old world and the emergence of a new. Will we architects be ready to hand over the pyramids to the society of the future? Continue reading
Period photographs of Soviet avant-garde built exteriors, 1926-1934
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
Richard Stites’ chapter “Utopia in Space: City and Building” from his book Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life (1981)
If there is truly a proletarian concept, it is the word “We.” — Anatoly Lunacharsky The Soviet government in the 1920s was the first in modern history to possess such mammoth power to design living quarters for its population; to determine … Continue reading