Moscow

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 No responses 2009-12-12
Opaque city jo pixel No responses 2009-10-18
Kodynskoe field development jo pixel 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 […] jo pixel 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. jo pixel No responses 2009-09-10
Dom Novogo Byta_Videoinstallation Videoinstallation presented at the Moskonsctruct exhibition, Garage Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, October 2009 jo pixel 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 […] jo pixel No responses 2009-07-16
AD n.7/6, 1970 jo pixel No responses 2009-05-20
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