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Back to Moscow
We are back again to Moscow. This time hot weather is accompanying us; an unusual hot season slows down even the constant flux of Muscovites in the streets. The Narkomfin itself seems to suffer even more the brightness of the sun light in the cracks of the walls. The big trees around the building are […]
jo pixel
2010-07-10
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The construction of Narkomfin
jo pixel
2010-07-06
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NY_interview with Yekaterina Milyutin
jo pixel
2010-07-03
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Architectural review n.1357
jo pixel
2010-05-11
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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 […]
jo pixel
2010-01-19
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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 […]
jo pixel
2009-12-12
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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.
jo pixel
2009-09-10
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Dom Novogo Byta_Videoinstallation
Videoinstallation presented at the Moskonsctruct exhibition, Garage Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, October 2009
jo pixel
2009-09-09
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AD n.7/6, 1970
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2009-05-20
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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
2009-05-18