- 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) […]
- Moskonansledie The main goal of our third and conclusive visit to Moscow was to meet and interview some representatives of Moscow Government, and namely Moscomansledie, the municipal agency in charge of preserving cultural heritage in the Russian Capital. It is the only relevant actor in the story of the Narkomfin, which we did not have the […]
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- RKM_SPOT RKM_SAVE URBAN HERITAGE An international campaign for the preservation of Constructivist Architecture in Moscow is lead by Moskonstruct.
- 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 […]
- La Habana INT/EXT March 2006. Invited to attend to the Novena Bienal de La Habana, we spent five weeks in Cuba in spring 2006, preparing a live media performance to be presented in the context of the international art event. That provided the opportunity to explore a different incarnation of the late modernist periphery, which is a […]