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AD n.7/6, 1970 No responses 2009-05-20
SA n.5, 1930 SA, Sovrimanja Architektura, the magazine of the constructivists, published before this design was developed, a Russian translation of Le Corbusier’s celebrated 5 points of the new architecture, in which Le Corbusier based the new discourse on the use of concrete, and insisted on the meaning pilotis, ribbon windows, the free plan, the free façade and […] No responses 2009-05-18
SA n.5, 1929 The building commissioned by Nikolai Milyutin, who was the people’s commissar for finance of the Russian federation, to Moisei Ginzburg and Ignati Milinis is an exceptional building, it is a prototype of a new kind of architecture , an architecture in which daily life, in which residential life would be re-articulated on a collective base. […] No responses 2009-05-18
RKM_SPOT RKM_SAVE URBAN HERITAGE An international campaign for the preservation of Constructivist Architecture in Moscow is lead by Moskonstruct. No responses 2009-05-17
Leaving Moscow… We left Moscow with good feelings… we stepped into a very interesting subject and came back with renewed curiosity and enthousiasm to go forward in our project (s). The first impact with Moscow has been tough and puzzling, the impression was of an hostile and repulsive city, too big, too noisy, too competitive… and difficult […] No responses 2009-05-14
MIAN Among the actors involved in the recent history of the Narkomfin there is also MIAN, (Moscow Real Estate Investment Agency) a company among the most powerful in the sector in Russia, which has acquired a certain amount of apartments inside the building, and is trying to get the entire ownership in order to redevelop the […] No responses 2009-05-14
The old poet There is an old man who lives nearby the Narkomfin, notably in the stalinian building build in the place of the 5th element of the narkomfin project; every time he sees someone hanging around and taking pictures, he comes out and start to tell stories about both buildings, and the competition among them to be […] No responses 2009-05-14
Le Corbusier vs. Narkomfin Le Corbusier is considered to be an important influence on Ginzburg’s work, but the Narcomfin in turn is also recognized as an influence for Le Corbusier’s later unitè d’habitation in Marseille. In the early 30s the french architect visited the building. Its consideration of the project is controversial. In his notebook he reports critical opinions […] No responses 2009-05-13
Maryino Maryino is one of the biggest dormitory neighbourhoods surrounding Moscow. Built in the Eighties, it hosts today almost half a million inhabitants. It represents a good example of what is contemporary Moscow in terms of architecture, atmosphere and social organization. We choose to set in Maryino a shooting session with the participation of the young […] No responses 2009-05-12
Inside Narkomfin No responses 2009-05-06