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Communal houses as a symbol of a dream of a common future
In the 20s of the 20th century a popular idea in Soviet society was a revolutionary one: a citizen's rejection of personal values in...
Kuvaldina Veronika
Dec 16, 20197 min read
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Architecture of the Russian avant-garde.Moscow district of Leningrad.
Ilyich House of Culture. Architect: Demkov N.F. Style: constructivism Year of construction: 1930-1931 Location: Moskovsky pr., 152...
Marina Bondarenko
Dec 12, 20195 min read
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Just decorations... or maybe not?
«Gas» (director – Khokhlov, designer – Annenkov) The action of Kaiser’s drama takes place at the modern factory. In the first act a huge...
Ольга Образцова
Dec 4, 20196 min read
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Levin: an artist at work, an engineer at heart
Levin is a talented Russian artist of the beginning of XX century. In his plays he widely used constructivism as a way to freshen up the...
Ольга Образцова
Dec 1, 20194 min read
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The bridge of V.E.Meyerhold, which changed the theater ...
The Idea to put "A Stranger" for a long time and, it seems, more than once came to the head of V.E.Meyerhold, and one day or, more...
Анастасия Горбатова
Nov 27, 20196 min read
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It is all beautiful, if it is advisable
Lensoveta Palace of Culture (1931-1938 - architects E.A. Levinson and V.O. Munz, address: St. Petersburg, Kamennoostrovsky Avenue, 42)...
Alina Zaikova
Nov 26, 20194 min read
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It’s an art-object…It’s a spaceship…NO, IT’S A FACTORY!
1. Knitting factory "Krasnoe Znamya". Power substation (1925-1926 - architect Mendelssohn Erich, address: Pionerskaya street, house 53,...
Сергей Веселов
Nov 22, 20192 min read
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Constructivism in architecture. Mechanized bakery.
Kushelevsky mechanized bakery Architect: Nikolsky A.S. Engineer: Marsakov G.P Style: constructivism Year of construction: 1933 Location:...
Marina Bondarenko
Nov 18, 20194 min read
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Art or extra detail?
The play "Gas" in the production of Khokhlov. Most critics were delighted with the created Annenkov machine-controlled pheria: "...by...
Agabekyan Tatyana
Nov 16, 20197 min read
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El Lisitsky: artist by vocation, revolutionary by conviction. Darmstadt.
El Lisitsky (real name Lisitsky Lazar Markovich) - Russian painter, graphic artist, designer, author of architectural projects, teacher;...
Agabekyan Tatyana
Nov 15, 20193 min read
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BOLD INNOVATORS. CONSTRUCTIVISM IN CLOTHES AND FABRICS IN 1920
Russian constructivists saw the human body as a mobile vessel, which required practical, simple, hygienic clothing to increase the work...
Яковлева Мария
Nov 14, 20194 min read
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The first house of the Leningrad's party elite
The Lensoviet house on Karpovka is the first residential building of the Lensoviet (Leningrad city Council of people's deputies)....
Анастасия Елоева
Nov 12, 20195 min read
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Round baths as part of constructivism in Leningrad
Ushakov's Giant Baths Architects: A.S. Nikolsky, V. M. Halperin, A. V. Krestin Year Built: 1930 Style: constructivism Location: Zoya...
Екатерина Войкевич
Nov 12, 20196 min read
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Leningrad constructivism or the dream of a socialist utopia
Avant-garde (constructivism) is a trend in the architecture of the Soviet period, prevailing in Leningrad in the 1920s-early 1930s. The...
Анастасия Елоева
Nov 9, 20199 min read
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Down with kitchen slavery! Factory-kitchen
To free women from homework, kitchen factories were created in the USSR in the 1920s. The factory was a kind of "factory" for cooking -...
techpeterburg
Sep 15, 20192 min read
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