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Moisei Ginzburg Moisei Ginzburg was one of the most active members of the constructivist movement, and a leading figure in many groups and institutions, from OSA which he founded together with Aleksander Vesnin to the Russian Academy of Arts and Sciences. The author of numerous theoretical texts, such as ‘Old and New’ and ‘Contemporary aesthetics’, he is often […] jo pixel No responses 2011-06-28
Narkomfin by Rodchenko After being expelled from the October group in 1932, Rodchenko was commissioned to take pictures of Moscow. Out of this series Varvara Stepanova, his wife and colleague, compiled a narrative sequence of eight-nine gelatin silver prints adding to it some photographs from the October period. The photos of street parades, housing projects, technical buildings, new […] jo pixel No responses 2011-06-11
El Lissitzky’s Autograph On the Map of Moscow We receive and publish from Elena Olshanskaya translated by Michael Subotin “We live in cities born before us. They no longer suffice for the tempo and needs of our day. We cannot raze them overnight and rebuild them “correctly”. It is impossible to change their structure and type all at once. Moscow, with its plan, […] jo pixel No responses 2011-01-28
The Milyutins’ Penthouse interior from Milyutin family archive With courtesy of Ekaterina Milyutina – NLO Publishers, Moscow jo pixel No responses 2010-11-15
New Life Byt is the Russian term for Everyday Life. The search for a new byt that could supplant the traditional bourgeois family structure was a fundamental issue to be addressed in the early Soviet era. Inspiration came from Lenin himself, who wrote in 1919 that “the real emancipation of women and real communism begins with the […] jo pixel No responses 2010-11-11
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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 […] jo pixel 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. […] jo pixel No responses 2009-05-18
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 […] jo pixel 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 […] jo pixel No responses 2009-05-13