- Power and Architecture The Power and Architecture season opens on June 10th at Calvert 22 Foundation in London. The program focusing on utopian public space and the quest for new national identities across the post-Soviet world includes a conference, a series of exhibitions and workshops, and digital curated content on The Calvert Journal. Re>centering Periphery will be part of the program. Oginoknauss […]
- Marginal Notes @ Remont Gallery 1-5 October 2015 Exhibition produced by Transeuropa Festival / Transnational Dialogues Curated by Luigi Galimberti Thanks to Miroslav, Marija and everyone at Remont gallery Photo by Boris Burić
- Aelita @ Marginal Notes Film screening with Live soundtrack by Yann Keller Aelita, also known as Aelita: Queen of Mars, is a silent film directed by Soviet filmmaker Yakov Protazanov. It was based on Alexei Tolstoy’s novel of the same name. The film was made at the Mezhrabpom-Rus film studio and released in 1924. It is in part set in post […]
- Marginal Notes_opening party Re:centering Perifery Marginal Notes_opening party 21 MARCH 2015 URBAN SPREE CLUB Revalerstrasse 99, 10245 Berlin
- Marginal Notes @ Urban Spree URBAN SPREE BERLIN 21 MARCH – 11 APRIL 2015 Randbemerkungen | Marginal notes is an exhibition summarizing eight years of explorations by the ogino:knauss collective into the modernist built environment. The event inaugurated a new phase in the body of work of Ogino Knauss, aiming to realize next film focusing on the city of Berlin. For three […]
- The Pruitt-Igoe Myth One of the most iconic architectural projects of modernity, the Pruitt-Igoe complex in st.Louis. The images of its demolition in 1973 have become the symbol of the passage to the post modern era, according to a famous Charles Jenks’ assertion. We saw the excellent film The Pruitt-Igoe Myth at the Rotterdam Architecture Film Festival. The […]
- Dom Novogo Byta premiere We are happy to announce the premiere of our new film Dom Novogo Byta Wednesday 13 March at Moviemento Kino, Kottbusserdamm 22, Berlin (Germany’s oldest cinema!). The screening will start at 6.45 pm with Doble Forza, first episode of the documentary series. Dom Novogo Byta will be presented at 7.15 pm. Both films are spoken in a mix of original languages (Spanish, Russian, French) and non-native English, with English […]
- Artists vs. Residents Artists have always inhabited the Narkomfin, and are among those who struggle for saving its architectural heritage. Nevertheless their role in the Narkomfin story is also ambiguous, as possible agents of gentrification and displacement. MIAN is allowing some artists to use the spaces of the building as studio, but the residents react against the artists, […]
- 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, […]
- Demolishing Moscow News about demolitions costantly come from Moscow, were the efforts of citizens and organizations as Arhnadzor, can’t stop the pressure of real estate market oligarchy, of which the main esponent is the wife of the mayor itself. No surprise that in this situation, organs due to preserve architectural heritage, as the Moscow heritage committee (Moskonansledie) […]