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
students 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

Boull
Cnotaphe 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
Unit dhabitation, 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