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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 • 3 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 • 2 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 • 4 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 • Leave a 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 • Leave a 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, modernism, functionalism, Bauhaus
Tags: translation, architecture, functionalism, Walter Riezler, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, form, anti-formalism

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

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 • Leave a Comment

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

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