Interview with Gazete Duvar
An interview with Kavel Alpaslan. Continue reading
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Jean-Louis Cohen, 1949-2023
A brief memorial and a collection of Cohen’s writings. Continue reading
In memoriam: Zaha Hadid, 1950-2016
It would be disingenuous for me to claim I was an admirer of Hadid’s oeuvre. Doubtless she was an important figure within contemporary architecture, and in many ways a pioneer. Continue reading
Современная архитектура: Organ of architectural modernism in the Soviet Union, 1926-1930
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
Stuttgart-Weißenhof, 1927: Modern architecture comes into its own
Van Doesburg wrote of Weißenhof’s functionalist origins: “Principally this trend came from Russia, and concurs with the communist philosophy of life.” Indeed, the Nazis would denounce the settlement ten years later for its “Bolshevik depravity.” Continue reading
The life and works of the Marxist art historian Meyer Schapiro
Confrontation with Jacques Derrida, visits with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Recollections of Robert Motherwell, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, André Breton, and correspondence with Trotsky. Continue reading
The historical project
History is the fruit of a repression, a negation. The problem is to make of that negation a determinate abstraction, give direction to theoretical work. Not by chance does Marx employ abstraction for the analysis of political economy. Continue reading
There is no criticism, only history
One of the greatest problems of our day is dealing with the uncontrollable acceleration of time, a process that began with 19th-century industrializations; it keeps continually disposing of things in expectation of the future. Continue reading
Andrei Burov
Burov become known for a brilliant bit of Corbusian architecture which appeared in the Eisenstein film The General Line (1927). Continue reading
Mikhail Barshch’s housing-communes in Moscow 1928-1930
Karel Teige The Minimum Dwelling (1931) . Currently, the functions and dimensions of the jačejka as a new housing type are widely discussed in the USSR under the heading of the obshchezhitie [collective living] versus the dom-komuna. The collective house … Continue reading