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
 Kandinsky
Bauhaus publication: Point and Line to Plane in 1926
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