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Bad TV – Moscow No responses 2010-04-24
El Lissitzky printing plant and Zhurgaz house MONEY AND POWER AGAINST ARCHITECTURE El Lissitzky printing plant and Zhurgaz house are under threat of destruction. Your help in protecting these landmarks is urgently needed! In 2007 staff members of the Russian Avant-Garde Fund discovered in a Moscow archive previously unknown blueprints for the printing plant of JSC Ogonek authored by El Lissitzky, a […] No responses 2010-01-19
A letter from Moscow Our friend Elena wrote us to inform about some sad developments of their campaign against speculation in Moscow. She is part of a committee of citizens struggling to defend their building, an interesting example of civil architecture of the constructivist period, from damages and abuses deriving from new development projects. Recently they discovered that the […] No responses 2010-01-11
Constructivism Constructivism is one of the most exciting, important, productive, inventive avant-garde movements of the first half of the 20th century. It developed in many cities of the Soviet Union and not only in Moscow. Developments took place in Leningrad, in Ukraina, even in the Caucasus, and were connected to a series of contemporary movements. The […] No responses 2009-12-12
Opaque city No responses 2009-10-18
Kodynskoe field development No responses 2009-10-14
Narkomfin denied Bad news, the Moskostruct exhibition that was foreseen to take place in the Narkonfin, was denied the permission form the residents. Apparently, the inhabitants are tired of journalists and students visiting the place, while none of their requests about the refurbishing of the building happens. Some rupture happened during last week in the relationship with […] No responses 2009-09-30
Narkomfin inspired The Narkomfin building was acknowledged by Le Corbusier as an influence on his Unité d’Habitation . the layout of its duplex apartments have been copied by Moshe Safdie in his Expo 67 flats, as well as by Denys Lasdun in his luxury flats at St James’, London. No responses 2009-09-10
Dom Novogo Byta_Videoinstallation Videoinstallation presented at the Moskonsctruct exhibition, Garage Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, October 2009 No responses 2009-09-09
Moscow Today Nearly two decades after the fall of Communism, Russia’s rapidly expanding economy, led by the current oil and gas boom, is transforming Moscow real estate. Construction cranes have joined the cupolas of Russian Orthodox churches and the spires of Stalinist-era edifices on the city’s skyline. Parts of the capital that were once desolate are filled […] No responses 2009-07-16