HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY IV
Soviet Architecture 1917 – 1932 Russian Revolution in 1917 destroyed the Tsarist Aristocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union.
The Tsar was removed in March 1917 and the Bolshevik (Communist) government took power in the October Revolution.
Lenin Marx and Engels – Manifesto of the Communist Party - 1848 “A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. “
Malevich 8 Red Rectangles 1915
Malevich Supremus no 58 1916
Malevich Arkitecton among Modern City Buildings 1920
Malevich Composition of Arkitectons 1920
Malevich Vertical Arkitecton 1920
Malevich Vertical Arkitecton 2 1920
Malevich Vertical Arkitecton 3 1920
Malevich Vertical Arkitecton 4 1920
Malevich Arkitecton 1923
Mies van der Rohe Concrete Country House Project 1923
Malevich Horizontal Arkitectons 1923
Malevich Horizontal Arkitectons 1923
Malevich Horizontal Arkitectons 1923
Chasnik Arkitecton Sketch
Khidekel Spatial Composition 1926
Bauhaus publication: “Point and Line to Plane” in 1926
Kandinsky Yellow, Red, Blue 1925
Kandinsky On White II 1923
Kandinsky Transverse Line 1923
El Lissitzky Proun Bridge 1919
El Lissitzky Proun 19D 1922
El Lissitsky Proun 1925
El Lissitzky Proun 12E 1920
El Lissitzky Design for a Lenin Tribune 1924
Rodchenko Spatial Constructions
Rodchenko Spatial Construction 1918
Rodchenko Spatial Construction #5 1918
Rodchenko Architectural Composition 1919
Rodchenko ArchitecturalComposition 1919
Rodchenko Painted Constructions 1919
Rodchenko Hanging Construction 1920
Rodchenko Spatial Construction 1920
Rodchenko Hanging Construction 1920
Rodchenko Spatial Constructions II
Rodchenko With cloth of his own design
Rodchenko photograph
Rodchenko photograph
Rodchenko photograph
Rodchenko photograph
Rodchenko photograph
Gabo Kinetic Construction 1920
Ladovsky Experimental Designs 1919
Ladovsky Experimental Designs 1919
Vkhutemas student’s works mid 1920
Suprematists: founder: Malevich Productivists: Tatlin, Rodchenko Malevich, Lissitzky, Popova
VkhUTEMAS school, founded in 1914 Constructivists: ASNOVA - Association of New Architects - 1926 More intuitive than functionalist Founder: Nikolai Ladovsky El Lissitzky Melnikov (temp.)
OSA -Union of Contemporary Architects -1925 -1930 The architect is first sociologist, second politician, and third technician. Urban planning, communal dwelling (domkommuna) Founder: Moisei Ginzburg Alexander Vesnin Leonidov
Tatlin Experimental Monument to the Third International 1919/ 1920
Tatlin Experimental Monument to the Third International 1919/ 1920
Tatlin Experimental Monument to the Third International 1919/ 1920
Boullé Cénotaphe a Newton 1784
Tatlin Experimental Monument to the Third International 1919/ 1920
Francisco Alonso de Santos Propuesta para la Plaza de Castilla Madrid, 1987
Tatlin Operating flying machine
Alexander Popova Festival on Khoynskoe Field
Vesnin Brothers Palace of Labour Comp. 1922/ 1923
Vesnin Brothers Palace of Labour Comp. 1922/ 1923
Vesnin Alexander Stagedesign for The Man who was Thursday 1922
Vesnin Alexander Stagedesign for The Man who was Thursday 1922
Vesnin Alexander Stagedesign for The Man who was Thursday 1922
Vesnin Alexander and Victor Leningradskaya Pravda Comp. 1924
Vesnin Alexander and Victor Leningradskaya Pravda Comp. 1924
Chernikov Architectural Fantasies 1925
Chernikov Architectural Fantasies 1925
El Lissitsky Cloudhanger Project 1925
El Lissitsky Cloudhanger Project 1925
Steven Holl Edge of a City - Project Phoenix, Arizona, 1991
El Lissitsky Cloudhanger Project 1925
Steven Holl T-Husene Copenhagen, 2006
El Lissitsky Cloudhanger Project 1925
Steven Holl Museum for Art and Architecture Nanjin, 2010
El Lissitsky Cloudhanger Project 1925
Steven Holl Museum for Art and Architecture Nanjin, 2010
El Lissitsky Cloudhanger Project 1925
Ministry Georgia, ex-USSR
El Lissitsky Cloudhanger Project 1925
El Lissitzky RussischeAusstellung 1929
Konstantin Melnikov Leningradskaya Pravda Comp. 1924
Melnikov Leningradskaya Pravda Comp. 1924
Melnikov Leningradskaya Pravda Comp. 1924
Melnikov Indoor Car Park Paris, 1925
Melnikov Indoor Car Park Paris, 1925
Melnikov Indoor Car Park Paris, 1925
Melnikov Indoor Car Park Paris, 1925
Melnikov USSR Pavilion 1925
Leonidov Lenin institute 1927
Leonidov Lenin institute 1927
Leonidov Lenin institute 1927
Leonidov Lenin institute 1927
Leonidov Palace of Culture Project 1930
Buckminster Fuller 1895 - 1983
Buckminster Fuller American Pavilion Montreal, 1967
Buckminster Fuller Dome over Manhattan
Konrad Wachsmann Hangar 1945
Melnikov House-Studio 1927
Melnikov House-Studio 1927
Melnikov House-Studio 1927
Melnikov House-Studio 1927
Melnikov House-Studio 1927
Melnikov House-Studio 1927
Melnikov Zuev Club 1927
Melnikov Rusakov Working Club 1927
Le Corbusier Centrosoyus 1929
Le Corbusier League of Nations competition 1927
Le Corbusier League of Nations competition 1927
Corbusier Palace of the Soviets 1931
Corbusier Palace of the Soviets 1931
Boris Iofan Palace of the Soviets, final approved version 1934
Boris Iofan Palace of the Soviets, final approved version 1934
Suprematists: founder: Malevich Productivists: Tatlin, Rodchenko Malevich, Lissitzky, Popova
VkhUTEMAS school, founded 1920 Constructivists: ASNOVA - Association of New Architects - 1926 More intuitive than functionalist Founder: Nikolai Ladovsky El Lissitzky Melnikov (temp.)
OSA -Union of Contemporary Architects -1925 -1930 The architect is first sociologist, second politician, and third technician. Urban planning, communal dwelling (domkommuna) Founder: Moisei Ginzburg Alexander Vesnin Leonidov
Ol, Ivanov and Lavinsky Interlocking duplex flats with central corridor OSA competition, 1927 Design for a compact kitchen module with concealing screens, by the Building Company of the Economic Council of the USSR, 1928
Ol, Ivanov and Lavinsky Interlocking duplex flats with central corridor OSA competition, 1927
Ol, Ivanov and Lavinsky Interlocking duplex flats with central corridor OSA competition, 1927
Le Corbusier Unité d’habitation, Marseille, 1947 - 52
Joseph Brodsky Less then one – Selected Essays
Melnikov Commisariat of Heavy Industry 1934
Melnikov Commisariat of Heavy Industry 1934
Melnikov Commisariat of Heavy Industry 1934
Vesnin Brothers Commisariat of Heavy Industry 1934
Vesnin Brothers Commisariat of Heavy Industry 1934
Palaceof Soviets / Approved Project 1946
Totalitarian architecture in Germany
