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Futurism: An Anthology

• September 21, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Futurism, modernism, urbanism/city planning

Theo van Doesburg’s “Stuttgart Weißenhof 1927, Die Wohnung: ‘The Dwelling,’ the Famous Werkbund Exhibition” (1927)

• September 13, 2011 • 5 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, functionalism, modernism
Tags: Adolf Loos, Cubism, functionalism, Hans Scharoun, J.J.P. Oud, Le Corbusier, Mies van Der Rohe, Theo van Doesburg, Walter Gropius, Weissenhof

Amédée Ozenfant’s The Fundamentals of Art (1929)

• August 31, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism
Tags: Amedee Ozenfant, avant-garde architecture, engineering, machine aesthetic, Purism

Le Corbusier and Amédée Ozenfant’s “Purism” (1921)

• August 31, 2011 • 4 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, modernism
Tags: Amedee Ozenfant, art theory, Le Corbusier, manifestos, modernist architecture, modernist painting, Purism

Kazimir Malevich’s “Painting and the Problem of Architecture” (1928)

• August 29, 2011 • 4 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architecture, art, Constructivism, Kazimir Malevich, Suprematism

Piet Mondrian’s “The Neo-Plastic Architecture of the Future” (1925)

• August 28, 2011 • 5 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, modernism
Tags: architecture, Neo-Plasticism, Piet Mondrian

Aleksei Gan’s Constructivism (1922)

• June 23, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, modernism, Russian avant-garde

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

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

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 “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

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 • 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

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

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