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Iakov Chernikhov’s The Construction of Architectural and Machine Forms (1932)

• November 17, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: aesthetics, architectural criticism, architectural theory, architecture, avant-garde, construction, Constructivism, functionalism, Iakov Chernikhov, Leningrad avant-garde, modernism, OSA, Russian avant-garde, socialism, Soviet Union, The Construction of Architectural and Machine Forms, theory of art, translation

Arthur Korn’s “Glass in Modern Architecture” (1928)

• November 3, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architecture, Arthur Korn, glass, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, translation, Walter Gropius

Moisei Ginzburg’s “Results and Prospects” (1927)

• November 3, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architectural modernism, internationalism, Moisei Ginzburg, Results and Prospects, Soviet avant-garde, Sovremennaia arkhitektura, translation

CIAM’s “The Athens Charter” (1933)

• November 3, 2010 • 10 Comments

Posted in architecture, functionalism, modernism, urbanism/city planning
Tags: Charter of Athens, CIAM, Cornelis van Eesteren, internationalism, Karel Teige, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Hilberseimer, translation, urbanism, Walter Gropius

Sigfried Giedion’s Building in France, Building in Ferro-concrete (1928)

• November 2, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, De Stijl, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism, urbanism/city planning
Tags: architectural history, Auguste Perret, building in France, Constructivism, ferroconcrete, functionalism, Le Corbusier, modern architecture, Sigfried Giedion, translation

Nikolai Miliutin’s Sotsgorod: The Problem of Building Socialist Cities (1930)

• November 1, 2010 • 7 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism, Russian avant-garde, urbanism/city planning
Tags: city planning, Николай Милютин, Соцгород, Five-Year Plan, Ginzburg, Nikolai Miliutin, OSA, Sotsgorod, urbanism

Moisei Ginzburg’s “Contemporary Architecture in Russia” (1928)

• October 31, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architecture, international constructivism, modernism, Moisei Ginzburg, planning, private property, Soviet Union, translation, USSR

Arthur Korn’s “Analytical and Utopian Architecture” (1923)

• October 31, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism
Tags: analytical architecture, architectural theory, Arthur Korn, Expressionism, translation, utopian architecture

Walter Gropius’ “Appraisal of the Development of Modern Architecture” (1934)

• October 29, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, functionalism, modernism
Tags: Adolf Loos, architecture, Auguste Perret, Frank Lloyd Wright, J.J.P. Oud, Le Corbusier, Louis Sullivan, Marinetti, modernism, St. Elia, translation, Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius’ “Sociological Premises for the Minimum Dwelling of Urban Industrial Populations” (1929)

• October 28, 2010 • 5 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: Bauhaus, minimum dwelling, sociology of architecture, standard housing, translation, Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius’ “Houses, Walk-ups or High-rise Apartment Blocks?” (1931)

• October 28, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism, urbanism/city planning
Tags: apartments, Bauhaus, CIAM, city planning, internationalism, town planning, translation, urbanism, Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius’ “Housing Industry” (1924)

• October 28, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: Bauhaus, construction, dry assembly, housing industry, industrialization, standardization interchangeable parts, translation, Walter Gropius

АСНОВА, «Идеологическая-Теоретическая-Методологическая И.Т.М. секция АСНОВА» (1927)

• October 28, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: АСНОВА, Балихин, Докучаев, Кринский, Ладовский, Лисицкий

АСНОВА, «Доклад АСНОВА» (1926 г.)

• October 28, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: АСНОВА, ВХУТЕМАС, Владимир Кринский, Лазарь Лисицкий, Николай Докучаев, Николай Красильников, Николай Ладовский, доклад

Walter Gropius’ The New Architecture and the Bauhaus (1925)

• October 28, 2010 • 4 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architectural education, architectural pedagogy, Bauhaus, Bauhaus Dessau, functionalism, industrialization, modernism, new architecture, standardization, translation, Walter Gropius

Karel Teige’s “Mundaneum” (1929)

• October 27, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism
Tags: architectural criticism, architecture, Constructivism, functionalism, Hannes Meyer, Karel Teige, Le Corbusier, modernism, Mundaneum, Otto Wagner, translation

Le Corbusier’s “In Defense of Architecture” (1929)

• October 27, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Aleksandr Vesnin, architecture, controversy, criticism, Hannes Meyer, Ivan Leonidov, Karel Teige, Le Corbusier, League of Nations palace, modernism, Mundaneum, translation

El Lissitzky’s The Reconstruction of Architecture in the Soviet Union (1929)

• October 27, 2010 • 5 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architecture, city planning, Constructivism, Dokuchaev, El Lissitzky, Ginzburg, Krinskii, Krinsky, Ladovskii, Ladovsky, Lenin, Malevich, psychotechnics, rationalism, reconstruction, Reconstruction of Architecture, Russian modernism, Russian Revolution, Soviet Union, Suprematism, Tatlin, translation, urbanism, Vesnin, VKhUTEIN, VKhUTEMAS

Karel Teige’s Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia (1929)

• October 26, 2010 • 6 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: academicism, Adolf Loos, architecture, architecture and society, Berlage, Brno, Czech modernism, Czech Secession, Czechoslovakia, El Lissitzky, formalism, functionalism, historicism, international constructivism, J.J.P. Oud, Jan Kotera, Jiri Kroha, Karel Teige, Le Corbusier, Mies van Der Rohe, modern architecture, Prague, revolution and architecture, revolutionary architecture, translation, van de Velde, Walter Gropius

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Art Criticism” (1930)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: architectural criticism, art criticism, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, theory, translation

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “The New Era” (1930)

• October 25, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, translation

Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe’s “Expositions” (1928)

• October 25, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architecture, expositions, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, translation

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Policy of the Stuttgart Exhibition” (1927)

• October 25, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architectural policies, Bauhaus, housing, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, Stuttgart, translation, Weissenhof

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “A Letter on Form in Architecture” (1924)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: anti-formalism, architecture, form, functionalism, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, translation, Walter Riezler

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Architecture and the Times” (1924)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architecture, avant-garde, building methods, concrete, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, modernity, translation

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “The Industrialization of Building Methods” (1924)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architecture, building construction, industrialization, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, standardization, translation

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Aphorisms on Architecture and Form” (1923)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: aphorisms, architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, translation

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “The Office Building” (1923)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: article, ferro-concrete, functionalism, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, office-buildings, steel, translation

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Two Glass Skyscrapers” (1922)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: Bauhaus, glass architecture, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, skyscrapers, translation

Николай Ладовский, «Психотехническая лаборатория архитектуры (в порядке постановки вопроса)» (1926 г.)

• October 24, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architectural theory, ASNOVA, «Психотехническая лаборатория архитектуры (в порядке постановки вопроса)», Николай Ладовский, modernism, Munsterberg, Nikolai Ladovskii, Nikolai Ladovsky, psychotechnical laboratory, psychotechnics, rationalism

Николай Ладовский, «Об организации восприятия пространтсвенных величин и обьектов» (1929 г.)

• October 24, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architectural education, architecture, conference, Николай Ладовский, modernism, Nikolai Ladovskii, Nikolai Ladovsky, Roman Khiger, Sovremmenaia Arkhitektura, VKhUTEIN, VKhUTEMAS

Николаий Ладовский, «О динамической планировочной структуре города» (1930 г.)

• October 24, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architecture, ARU, dynamism, Николаий Ладовский, Строительство Москвы, garden city, Le Corbusier, linear city, modernism, Nikolai Ladovskii, Nikolai Ladovsky, the dynamic planning structure of the city, urbanism

Николай Ладовский, «О перспективах стандартизации жилищного строительства» (1930 г.)

• October 24, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: ARU, Николай Ладовский, Green City, Nikolai Ladovskii, Nikolai Ladovsky, planning, rationalism, standard dwelling, town planning, urbanism, workers' housing

Николай Ладовский, «Планировка Автостроя и Магнитогорска в вузе» (1931 г.)

• October 24, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Architecture USSR, ARU, Avtostroi, Avtostroy, Николай Ладовский, Советская архитектура, Five-Year Plan, Gorky automobile factory, Magnistogorsk, Nikolai Ladovskii, Nikolai Ladovsky, Russian avant-garde, socialist cities, town planning, urbanism

Sigfried Giedion’s “Live Museum” (1929)

• October 24, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: archipenko, El Lissitzky, Hans Arp, Kurt Schwitters, Léger, Picasso, Sigfried Giedion, translation

Traugott Schakher’s “El Lissitzky” (1928)

• October 24, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: El Lissitzky, modernism, Russian avant-garde, Russian modernism, translation, Traugott Schakher

Ernő Kállai’s “El Lissitzky” (1924)

• October 24, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: abstract art, architecture, El Lissitzky, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, Prouns, Russian avant-garde, translation, utopia

Ernő Kállai’s “Lissitzky” (1922)

• October 24, 2010 • 4 Comments

The Editors of Blok’s “What Constructivism Is” (1924)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: anti-formalism, Blok, construction, Constructivism, editorial statement, functionalism, international constructivism, internationalism, Polish avant-garde, Polish modernism, translation

Mieczysław Szczuka’s “An Attempt to Explain the Misunderstanding Related to the Public’s Attitude to New Art” (1924)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism
Tags: alienation, international constructivism, internationalism, Mieczystaw Szczuka, Mieczysław Szczuka, new art, Polish avant-garde, public reception, translation, urbanism

Henryk Stazewski’s “Untitled Statements on Suprematism and Painting” (1924)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, functionalism, International Constructivism
Tags: Blok, flatness, Henryk Stazewski, internationalism, Lissitzky, Malevich, Polish Constructivism, Suprematism, Tatlin, translation

The Editors of Blok’s “Editorial Statement” (1924)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, functionalism, modernism
Tags: Blok, Constructivism, editorial statement, functionalism, Polish avant-garde, Polish modernism, translation, utilitarianism, utility

Hans Richter’s “Toward Constructivism” (1924)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: art movements, Constructivism, El Lissitzky, Hans Richter, internationalism, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Hans Richter’s “Prague” (1924)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, modernism
Tags: Hans Richter, Karel Teige, modernism, Prague, translation

Alfréd Kemény “Abstract Design from Suprematism to the Present” (1924)

• October 23, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: abstract design, Alfred Kemeny, Constructivism, El Lissitzky, Elementarism, Kazimir Malevich, modernism, Peri, Piet Mondrian, Suprematism, translation, Vladimir Tatlin

Alfréd Kemény’s “The Dynamic Principle of Cosmic Construction, as Related to the Functional Significance of Constructive Design” (1923)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, functionalism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Alfred Kemeny, architectural avant-garde, architecture, art, Constructivism, cosmic construction, dynamism, functionality, global construction, modernism, translation

Alfréd Kemény’s “Constructivist Art and Péri’s Spatial Constructions” (1923)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: abstract design, Alfréd Kemény. Constructivism, construction, Malevich, Mondrian, Peri, translation

Henryk Berlewi’s “The Arts Abroad” (1922-23)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Bauhaus, Constructivism, Henryk Berlewi, international congress, international constructivism, Lissitzky, Malevich, Mies van Der Rohe, Purism, Suprematism, Tatlin, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “Herwarth Walden” (1928)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: albert gleizes, archipenko, august macke, boccioni, campendonk, delaunay, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, feininger, fernand léger, franz marc, herwarth walden, jean metzinger, kandinsky, kirchner, klee, kokoschka, Marc Chagall, memorial, molzahn, nolde, pechstein, schmidt-rottluff, schwitters, translation

Farkas Molnár’s “Life at the Bauhaus” (1925)

• October 23, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: architectural education, architectural theory, architecture, Bauhaus, dancing, El Lissitzky, Farkas Molnár, Le Corbusier, Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, translation, Walter Gropius

Mart Stam’s “Three Houses at the Stuttgart Exhibition” (1927)

• October 23, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, De Stijl, functionalism, modernism
Tags: functionalism, Mart Stam, mass housing, minimum dwelling, Stuttgart, town planning, translation, Weissenhof

Mart Stam’s “Makeyekvka” (1932)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, De Stijl, functionalism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: city planning, Five-Year Plan, internationalism, Mart Stam, Soviet Union, town planning, translation, urbanism, USSR

Mart Stam’s “Scale — Right Scale — Minimum Scale” (1929)

• October 23, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, De Stijl, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architecture, design, functionalism, Mart Stam, modernism, translation

Mart Stam’s “M-Art” (1927)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, De Stijl, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architecture, De Stijl, functionalism, Mart Stam, translation

Mart Stam’s “Space” (1925)

• October 23, 2010 • 4 Comments

Posted in architecture, De Stijl, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architectural theory, architecture, El Lissitzky, Mart Stam, modernism, space, translation

Endre Gáspár’s “The Hungarian Activist Movement” (1924)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, modernism
Tags: Activism, artistic movements, Endre Gáspár, Hungarian avant-garde, Hungarian modernism, Lajos Kassak, translation

Ernő Kállai’s, Alfréd Kemény’s, László Moholy-Nagy’s, and László Péri’s “Manifesto” (1923)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, functionalism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Alfred Kemeny, bourgeois, Constructivism, De Stijl, Erno Kallai, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, László Péri, proletkult, revolutionary proletariat, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “Correction (To the Attention of De Stijl)” (1923)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architecture, Constructivism, De Stijl, dialectics, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, exclusivity of form, Expressionism, Marxism, psycho-physical, socialism, theory of art, translation, utopia

Ernő Kállai’s “Constructivism” (1923)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: art criticism, Constructivism, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, Expressionism, modernism, non-objective art, Suprematism, theory of art, translation

Lajos Kassák’s “Picture-Architecture” (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism
Tags: architectural theory, architecture and revolution, global architecture, humanity, Hungarian avant-garde, Lajos Kassak, the bourgeoisie, the proletariat, translation

Ernő Kállai’s (under the pen name Péter Mátyás’) “Lajos Kassák” (1921)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architecture, art, Ernso Kallai, Ernst Kallai, Hungarian avant-garde, Lajos Kassak, modernism, translation

Ernő Kállai’s (pseudonym Péter Mátyás’) “Moholy-Nagy” (1921)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: art, Cubism, Dadaism, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, Hungarian avant-garde, Moholy-Nagy, theory of art, translation

Lajos Kassák’s “To the Artists of All Nations!” (1920)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, modernism
Tags: architecture, art, humanity, internationalism, Lajos Kassak, revolution, the proletariat, translation

Arthur Holitscher’s “Statement” on the Catalogue of the First Exhibition of Russian Art, Van Diemen Gallery, Berlin (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Russian avant-garde
Tags: art and revolution, Arthur Holitscher, catalogue, modernism, revolutionary art, revolutionary form, Russian exhibition, studio revolutions, theory of art, translation

David Shterenberg’s “Foreword” to the Catalogue of the First Exhibition of Russian Art, Van Diemen Gallery, Berlin (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: avant-garde, catalogue, Constructivism, David Shterenerg, David Sterenberg, internationalism, modernism, Russian exhibition, Suprematism, translation

Branko Ve Poljanski’s “Through the Russian Exhibition” (1923)

• October 22, 2010 • 4 Comments

Posted in art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Aleksandr Rodchenko, Alexander Rodchenko, Branko Ve Poljanski, Constructivism, El Lissitzky, internationalism, Kasimir Malevich, Kazimir Malevich, Rozanova, Russian avant-garde, Russian exhibition, Suprematism, translation, Vladimir Tatlin, Zenithism

Alfréd Kemény’s “Notes to the Russian Artists’ Exhibition in Berlin” (1923)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Alfred Kemeny, Constructivism, Russian exhibition, Soviet avant-garde, Suprematism, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “The Russian Exhibition in Berlin” (1923)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: art criticism, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, review, Russian exhibition, Russian Revolution, Suprematism, translation

Lajos Kassák’s “The Russian Exhibit in Berlin” (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: art criticism, art history, Berlin, Lajos Kassak, review, Russian exhibition, Suprematism, translation

Adolf Behne’s “On the Russian Exhibition” (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • 4 Comments

Posted in art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Adolf Behne, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Alexander Rodchenko, David Sterenberg, El Lissitzky, internationalism, Kasimir Malevich, Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, Russian exhibition, Suprematism, translation, Vladimir Tatlin, Wassily Kandinsky

Paul Westheim’s “The Exhibition of Russian Artists” (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • 4 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Constructivism, exhibition, internationalism, Malevich, Naum Gabo, Paul Westheim, Rodchenko, Russian modernism, Suprematism, Tatlin, translation

De Stijl, “A Short Review of the Proceedings [of the Congress of International Progressive Artists], Followed by the Statements Made by the Artists’ Groups” (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architecture, art, Constructivism, De Stijl, El Lissitzky, Expressionism, Gegenstand, Hans Richter, Ilia Ehrenburg, Ilya Ehrenburg, internationalism, Marcel Janco, Novembergruppe, Objet, Theo van Doesburg, translation, Veshch, Viking Eggeling

Lajos Kassák’s, Sándor Barta’s, János Mácza’s, Endre Gáspár’s, László Moholy-Nagy’s, Ernő Kállai’s, Jolán Simon’s, Lajos Kudlák’s, and Erzsébet Ujvári’s “The Stand Taken by the Vienna MA Group Toward the First Düsseldorf Congress of Progressive Artists” (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: art exhibition, art movements, avant garde art, avant-garde architecture, Endre Gáspár, Erno Kallai, Erzsébet Ujvári, international congress, internationalism, János Mácza, Jolán Simon, Lajos Kassak, Lajos Kudlák, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, modernism, Sándor Barta, translation

Henryk Berlewi’s “The International Exhibition in Düsseldorf” (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Constructivism, De Stijl, Dusseldorf, Henryk Berlewi, International Exhibition, internationalism, Kazimir Malevich, modern art, Russian avant-garde, Theo van Doesburg, translation, Vladimir Tatlin

Wtadysław Strzemiński, et. al.’s “Communiqué of the Group ‘a.r.’” (1930)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism
Tags: a.r. group, architecture, artistic manifestoes, declaration, Polish avant-garde, Polish modernism, translation

Mart Stam’s “Collective Design” (1925)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, De Stijl, functionalism, modernism
Tags: ABC, architectural modernism, avant-garde architecture, De Stijl, Mart Stam, translation

Tadeusz Peiper’s “Malevich in Poland” (1927)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Kasimir Malevich, Kazimir Malevich, Malevich, painting, Polish avant-garde, Polish modernism, Suprematism, Tadeusz Peiper, translation

Mieczysław Szczuka’s “Funeral of Suprematism” (1927)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Kasimir Malevich, Kazimir Malevich, Mieczysław Szczuka, painting, Russian modernism, Suprematism, translation

Mieczysław Szczuka’s “Art and Reality” (1927)

• October 22, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, functionalism, modernism
Tags: art and reality, art and society, capitalism, Mieczysław Szczuka, Polish avant-garde, Polish modernism, socialism, theory of art, translation

El Lissitzky’s “Architecture in the USSR” (1925)

• October 21, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architectural avant-garde, architecture, ASNOVA, Dokuchaev, El Lissitzky, Krinsky, modern architecture, Nikolai Ladovsky, rationalism, Russian modernism, synthetic art, translation

The Left Front’s “Founding Manifesto” (1929)

• October 21, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, modernism
Tags: architectural manifestoes, architecture, art movements, artistic manifestoes, Czech modernism, housing, leftism, The Left Front, the minimum dwelling, translation

László Moholy-Nagy’s “Photography Unparalleled” (1927)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: aesthetic theory, Bauhaus, camera, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, light, modernism, perspective, photography, photomontage, theory of art, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “Painting and Photography” (1927)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Durer, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, Lissitzky, modernism translation, Neue Sachlichkeit, painting, photography

Willi Baumeister’s, Adolf Behne’s, Max Burchartz’s, Will Grohmann’s, Wassily Kandinsky’s, Lajos Kassák’s, László Moholy-Nagy’s, Piet Mondrian’s, and Georg Muche’s “Debate on Ernő Kállai’s Article ‘Painting and Photography’” (1927)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: Adolf Behne, facture, Georg Muche, internationalism, Lajos Kassak, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Max Burchartz, painting, photography, Piet Mondrian, theory of art, translation, Wassily Kandinsky, Will Grohmann, Willi Baumeister

Ernő Kállai’s “Reply to the Debate on My Article ‘Painting and Photography’” (1927)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: debate, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, facture, modernism, painting, photography, theory of art, translation

Walter Riezler’s “‘Form,’ Photo, and Film” (1929)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: Film, modernism, Ten Days that Shook the World, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, translation, Walter Riezler

Marcel Janco’s “Reflections of Cubism” (1928)

• October 21, 2010 • 4 Comments

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Tags: aesthetics, Braque, Cubism, Marcel Janco, modernism, painting, Picasso, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “Art and the General Public” (1929)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: capitalism, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, modern art, modernism, reception, the masses, theory of art, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “Vision and the Law of Form” (1930)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: aesthetics, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, form, modernism, theory of art, translation, vision

Walter Dexel’s “Theo van Doesburg” (1931)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, art, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, memorial, modernism, Theo van Doesburg, translation, Walter Dexel

Karel Teige’s “Poetism” (1924)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: art and life, Constructivism, Czech modernism, Karel Teige, poetism, theory of art, translation

Jindřich Štyrský’s and Toyen’s “Artificialism” (1927-1928)

• October 21, 2010 • 2 Comments

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Tags: aesthetics, art, artificialism, Czech modernism, Jindrich Styrsky, manifesto, memory, surrealism, theory of art, Toyen, translation

Exerpt from Ernő Kállai’s New Painting in Hungary (1925)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: art theory, avant-garde, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, Hungarian modernism, painting, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “The Twilight of Ideologies” (1925)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architectural theory, architecture, art and ideology, art theory, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, Hungarian modernism, isms, modernism, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “Architecture” (1924)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architectural criticism, architectural modernism, architectural theory, architecture, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, functionalism, Hungarian modernism, translation

Lajos Kassák’s “Back to the Workbench” (1923)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architectural theory, architecture, art, art into life, Constructivism, Lajos Kassak, revolution, Soviets, the new man, translation

Excerpts from Karel Teige’s “Poetism Manifesto” (1928)

• October 21, 2010 • 2 Comments

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Tags: aesthetics, architectural theory, art theory, avant-garde, Constructivism, Czech modernism, Karel Teige, manifesto, poetism, translation

Jindřich Štyrský’s and Toyen’s “The Poet (Lecture Given on the Occasion of Exhibition Opening)” (1927-1928)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: art theory, artificialism, Czech modernism, Jindrich Styrsky, modernism, painting, the poet, Toyen, translation

Tadeusz Peiper’s “At the Bauhaus” (1927)

• October 21, 2010 • 1 Comment

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Tags: abstract art, aesthetics, functionalism, internationalism, Kazimir Malevich, Lissitzky, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, Tadeusz Peiper, translation, Walter Gropius

Karel Teige’s “Ten Years of the Bauhaus” (1929-1930)

• October 21, 2010 • 2 Comments

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Tags: Bauhaus, Constructivism, De Stijl, Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Karel Teige, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Malevich, Mies van Der Rohe, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Exerpts from Ernő Kállai’s “Ten Years of Bauhaus” (1930)

• October 21, 2010 • 3 Comments

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Tags: architectural criticism, art criticism, Bauhaus, Erno Kallai, functionalism, Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, style, translation, Walter Gropius

Kurt Ewald’s “The Beauty of Machines” (1925-6)

• October 20, 2010 • 3 Comments

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Tags: aesthetics, architecture, art, Beauty of Machines, design, functionalism, Kant, Kurt Ewald, mechanicism, technical beauty, translation

Le Corbusier’s “The Atmosphere of Moscow,” along with His Letter to Ginzburg on Deurbanization (1930)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, Atmosphere of Moscow, deurbanism, disurbanism, Five-Year Planning, Le Corbusier, Moisei Ginzburg, planning, Precisions, the Green City, urbanism

Theo van Doesburg’s, László Moholy-Nagy’s, Hans Arp’s, and Ivan Puni’s “A Call for an Elementarist Art” (1921)

• October 20, 2010 • 1 Comment

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Tags: A Call for Elementarist Art, De Stijl, Elementarism, Hans Arp, Ivan Puni, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, manifesto, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Theo van Doesburg’s “Elemental Formation” (1923)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, art, avant-garde, Elementarism, G, internationalism, modernism, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Hans Richter’s G (1924)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, art, Constructivism, G, Hans Richter, modernism, translation

Ludwig Hilberseimer’s “Construction and Form” (1924)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architectural theory, Architecture and Form, Bauhaus, building, concrete, construction, ferroconcrete, G, Ludwig Hilberseimer, translation

Michel Seuphor’s “In Defense of an Architecture” (1930)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, Constructivism, In Defense of an Architecture, Michel Seuphor, modernism, revolution, translation

Karel Teige’s “Constructivism and the Liquidation of ‘Art’” (1925)

• October 20, 2010 • 3 Comments

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Tags: anti-art, architectural theory, art theory, Constructivism, Czech modernism, functionality, internationalism, Karel Teige, translation, utility

Hannes Meyer’s “bauhaus and society” (1929)

• October 20, 2010 • 4 Comments

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Tags: architectural theory, architecture and society, art and life, Bauhaus, building, Hannes Meyer, translation

Hannes Meyer’s “building” (1928)

• October 20, 2010 • 4 Comments

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Tags: architectural theory, architecture, art and life, Bauhaus, building, construction, functionalism, Hannes Meyer, modernism, translation

Hannes Meyer’s “The New World” (1926)

• October 20, 2010 • 4 Comments

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Tags: architecture, automobiles, Bauhaus, Hannes Meyer, machinery, modernism, The New World, translation

A. Gatman’s “Hannes Meyer on the Bauhaus at Moscow” (1930)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, building, capitalism, Hannes Meyer, planning, proletariat, socialism, Soviet Union, translation, USSR

Anonymous from Novosibirsk, “On the Subject of Discussions Concerning Russian Architecture”

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: Anonymous, architectural criticism, architecture, international modernism, neo-classicism, Stalinism, town planning, translation

“Reports from Moscow: Taut’s Return from Moscow” (1933)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, Bruno Taut, Soviet Union, Stalin, translation, USSR

Hans Schmidt’s “The Soviet Union and Modern Architecture” (1932)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: avant-garde, Hans Schmidt, international modernism, Marxism, modernism, neo-classicism, Palace of the Soviets Competition, Russian modernism, Stalinism, translation

Hannes Meyer’s “Construction, Construction Workers, and Technicians in the Soviet Union” (1931)

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Tags: architecture, Bauhaus, Hannes Meyer, internationalism, modernism, socialism, Soviet Union, translation

Martin Wagner’s “Russia Builds Cities” (1931)

• October 20, 2010 • 2 Comments

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Tags: architecture, Martin Wagner, modernism, planning, Russia, socialism, socialist cities, Soviet Union, town planning, urbanism

Ernst May’s “City Building in the USSR” (1931)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, Ernst May, Magnitogorsk, modernism, revolution, socialism, socialist cities, Soviet Union, town planning, translation, urbanism, USSR

Wilm Stein’s “Experiment: ‘Socialist Cities’: Realization of Communes too Expensive — Therefore Postponed” (1931)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, city planning, collectivism, funding, housing, Russia, socialist cities, Soviet Union, town planning, translation, Wilm Stein

M. Ilyin’s “Moscow: Russian Urbanism” (1931)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, city planning, disurbanism, M. Ilyin, Russia, Soviet Union, town planning, translation, urbanism

Karel Teige’s “Contemporary International Architecture” (1928)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architectural criticism, architecture, J.J.P. Oud, Karel Teige, Marxism, Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, socialism, translation, Walter Gropius, Weissenhof

P. Martell’s “Legislation Concerning Residential Development in the Soviet Union” (1928)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, building projects, maintenance, P. Martell, planning, property laws, Russian Revolution, translation

Jiří Kroha’s “Ideology of Architecture” (1933)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, capitalism, ideology, Jiri Kroha, Marxism, modernism, translation

Walter Riezler’s “The Fight for German Culture” (1932)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, Bauhaus, modernism, Theodor Fischer, translation, Walter Riezler, Werkbund

Ernst May’s “Flats for Subsistence Living” (1929)

• October 20, 2010 • 2 Comments

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Bruno Taut’s “Five Points” (1929)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architectural theory, architecture, avant-garde, Bruno Taut, efficiency, functionalism, new architecture, translation, utilitarianism

Walter Riezler’s “The Purpose and Concept of Technical Beauty” (1928)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: aesthetics, architectural theory, architecture, art criticism, design, functionalism, technical beauty, translation, Walter Riezler

Gerrit Rietveld, “Utility, Construction: (Beauty, Art)” (1927)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: aesthetics, architecture, Bolland, De Stijl, Gerrit Rietveld, Tagore, translation

Werner Gräff’s “‘The Dwelling,’ Weissenhof Exhibition” (1927)

• October 20, 2010 • 2 Comments

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Tags: architectural theory, architecture, exhibition, functionalism, housing, Le Corbusier, Mart Stam, Mies van Der Rohe, the dwelling, translation, Weissenhof, Werner Graff

Georg Muche’s “Fine Art and Industrial Form” (1926)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: aesthetics, architecture, design, fine art, Georg Muche, industrialization, modernism, translation

Walter Curt Behrendt’s “The State of the Arts and Crafts” (1925-6)

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Tags: architecture, arts and crafts, design, functionalism, industrialization, mechanization, modernism, translation, Walter Curt Behrendt

Le Corbusier’s “Words” (1925)

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Tags: architectural criticism, architecture, avant-garde, Le Corbusier, modernism, Paul Valery, standardization, translation

Le Corbusier’s “A Single Trade” (1925)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architectural criticism, architectural theory, architecture, construction, functionalism, Le Corbusier, standardization, translation

Le Corbusier’s “Mass-Produced Buildings” (1924)

• October 20, 2010 • 5 Comments

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Tags: architectural theory, architecture, avant-garde, buildings, Le Corbusier, mass production, modernism, standardization, translation

Le Corbusier’s “The New Spirit in Architecture” (1924)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architectural theory, architecture, geometry, Le Corbusier, modernism, New Spirit in Architecture, translation

J.J.P. Oud’s “Architecture and Standardization in Mass Construction” (1918)

• October 20, 2010 • 2 Comments

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Tags: architectural theory, architecture, De Stijl, industrialization, J.J.P. Oud, mass construction, standardization, translation

Gerrit Rietveld’s “New Functionalism in Dutch Architecture” (1932)

• October 20, 2010 • 2 Comments

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Tags: architectural criticism, architecture, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, functionalism, Gerrit Rietveld, translation

Walter Curt Behrendt’s The Victory of the New Building Style (1928)

• October 19, 2010 • 4 Comments

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Tags: architectural criticism, functionalism, modernism, The Victory of the New Style, translation, Walter Curt Behrendt

Adolf Behne’s The Modern Functional Building (1926)

• October 19, 2010 • 4 Comments

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Tags: Adolf Behne, architecture, avant-garde, functional building, functionalism, J.J.P. Oud, Ladovskii, translation, VKhUTEMAS

Theo van Doesburg, “The Capital vs. the Countryside: OSA’s Propaganda for a Modern Community Architecture” (1929)

• October 19, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architectural criticism, architectural theory, modern architecture, Moisei Ginzburg, OSA, Russian avant-garde, Theo van Doesburg, translation, Vesnin

Theo van Doesburg’s “Abstraction, Dream, and Utopia: Conflicting Movements in Russian Architecture” (1928)

• October 19, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architectural criticism, avant-garde architecture, De Stijl, international modernism, international style, modernism, Russian avant-garde, Theo van Doesburg

“Architecture and Revolution — Revolutionary Architecture? Utopian designs by Tatlin, Lissitzky, and Others” (1928)

• October 19, 2010 • 1 Comment

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Tags: Theo van Doesburg

Theo van Doesburg’s “elementarism” (1930)

• October 19, 2010 • 1 Comment

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Tags: architectural theory, art theory, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, Elementarism, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Theo van Doesburg’s “Notes on L’Aubette at Strasbourg” (1928)

• October 19, 2010 • 1 Comment

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Tags: architectural theory, architecture, De Stijl, Francois Blondel, history, notes, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart’s “incomparable mechanization” (1927)

• October 19, 2010 • 2 Comments

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Tags: art, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, mechanization, the machine, translation

Cornelis van Eesteren’s “Ten years of ‘Stijl.’ Art, Technique, and Town Planning” (1927)

• October 19, 2010 • 3 Comments

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Tags: architecture, art, city planning, Cornelis van Eesteren, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, town planning, translation, urbanism

Theo van Doesburg “De Stijl, Jubilee Number” (1927)

• October 19, 2010 • 2 Comments

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Tags: architecture, art, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, reflection, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Theo van Doesburg “Painting and Sculpture: Elementarism (Fragment of a Manifesto)” (1927)

• October 19, 2010 • 1 Comment

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Tags: architecture, art, Dutch Modernism. De Stijl, Elementarism, Neoplasticism, painting, Theo van Doesburg

I.K. Bonset’s “about the sense of literature” (1927)

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Theo van Doesburg “Painting and Sculpture: About Counter-composition and Counter-Sculpture. Elementarism (Fragment of a Manifesto)” (1926)

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Theo van Doesburg’s “Painting: From Composition to Counter-Composition” (1925)

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Tags: art, counter-composition, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, painting, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Piet Mondrian’s “No Axiom but the Plastic” (1923)

• October 19, 2010 • 1 Comment

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Tags: art, avant-garde, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, Neoplasticism, Piet Mondrian, theory, translation

Theo van Doesburg’s “Towards a Plastic Architecture” (1924)

• October 19, 2010 • 6 Comments

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Tags: architecture, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, modernism, plastic, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Piet Mondrian’s “Is Painting Secondary to Architecture?” (1923)

• October 18, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, art, Neoplasticism, painting, Piet Mondrian, theory, translation

Theo van Doesburg’s “From the New Aesthetic to its Material Realization”

• October 18, 2010 • 4 Comments

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“De Stijl 1917-1922 and Its Movement in: Painting — Architecture — Sculpture — Monumental Art — Music — Literature — Anti-Philosophy — Mechanism — Objects-Dance” (1922)

• October 18, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: 1922, architecture, art, collectivism, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, internationalism, modernism

Theo van Doesburg’s “Against Imitative Artists”

• October 18, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: art, artistic theory, Dutch modernism, imitation, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Piet Mondrian’s “The Realization of Neoplasticism in the Distant Future and in Architecture Today: Architecture, Conceived as Our Total [Non-Natural] Environment” (1922)

• October 18, 2010 • 5 Comments

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Tags: architecture, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, Neoplasticism, Piet Mondrian, translation

De Stijl Group, “Manifesto III: Towards a New World Plasticism”

• October 18, 2010 • 1 Comment

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Tags: 1921, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, internationalism, manifesto, modernism, plasticism

J.J.P. Oud’s “Orientation” (1919)

• October 18, 2010 • 2 Comments

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Tags: architecture, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, J.J.P. Oud

Gerrit Rietveld’s “Note on a Baby Chair” (1918)

• October 17, 2010 • 1 Comment

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Theo van Doesburg’s “On looking at New Painting” (1918)

• October 17, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: abstract art, aesthetics, Dutch modernism, painting, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Piet Mondrian’s “A Dialogue on Neoplasticism”

• October 17, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: abstract art, dialog, dialogue, Dutch modernism, modern art, Neo-Plasticism, painting, Piet Mondrian, translation

Theo van Doesburg’s “Thought — Perception — Plasticism” (1918)

• October 17, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, art, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, modernism, perception, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Piet Mondrian’s “The Determinate and the Indeterminate (Supplement)” (1918)

• October 17, 2010 • 1 Comment

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Tags: architecture, art, determinacy, Dutch modernism, Neo-Plasticism, Piet Mondrian, translation

Theo van Doesburg “Notes on Monumental Art with Reference to Two Fragments of a Building (Hall in Holiday Center at Noordwijkerhout)” (1918)

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Tags: architecture, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, monumental art, Neo-Plasticism, Theo van Doesburg, translation

J.J.P. Oud’s “Art and Machine” (1918)

• October 17, 2010 • 2 Comments

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Tags: architecture, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, J.J.P. Oud, machine aesthetic, Severini, translation

J.J.P.Oud’s “The Monumental Townscape” (1918)

• October 17, 2010 • 1 Comment

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Tags: Amsterdam School, architecture, Berlage School, Dutch modernism, J.J.P. Oud, modernism, monumentality, town planning, translation

Bart van der Leck’s “The Place of Modern Painting in Architecture” (1917)

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Piet Mondrian’s Neoplasticism in Painting (1917-1918)

• October 17, 2010 • 4 Comments

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Tags: abstract art, Cezanne, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, history, Holland, modernism, Neo-Plasticism, painting, Piet Mondrian, translation, Van Gogh