Due to supply shortages, Barkhin was forced to scrap the uppermost elevation in order to preserve the base as a continuous block, with rectilinear glazed façades as well as a series of distinctive circular windows over the right side of the entrance. Continue reading
It’s rare enough for a family to produce one genius. Two is even more unheard of. But three? Continue reading
“Paper architecture” — drawn but unbuilt — exercises a strange grip on the imagination. It affords a brief glimpse into lost worlds: not only the real or historical world in which architects actually lived, but the worlds they imagined themselves to be building. Continue reading
The idea of the conquest of the substructure, the earthbound, can be extended even further and calls for the conquest of gravity as such. It demands floating structures, a physical-dynamic architecture. Continue reading
A gallery of rare images from the VKhUTEMAS school of art and architecture in Moscow, 1920-1930. Continue reading
For better or worse — okay, for worse — architecture remains something of “a man’s world.” Continue reading
Not all of the early Soviet architectural avant-garde was “constructivist,” strictly speaking. Continue reading
Student projects at VKhUTEMAS and VKhUTEIN from the studios of Vesnin and Ladovskii, 1925-1929. Continue reading
The “space” course for architects at VKhUTEMAS in Moscow, 1920s. Continue reading
“Architecture is a social manifestation and is thus indissolubly linked with the structure of society at a given point of time. Once separated from the society of its age, it becomes an empty sham and a toy for the infatuated followers of vulgar fashion.” Hannes Meyer, 1933 Continue reading