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Manfredo Tafuri’s Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development (1971)

• November 19, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, De Stijl, functionalism, Futurism, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde, urbanism/city planning
Tags: architectural criticism, Architecture and Utopia, Manfredo Tafuri

Bruno Taut’s “Russia’s Architectural Situation” (1929)

• September 27, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Bruno Taut, constructivists, rationalist, Russian architecture

Futurism: An Anthology

• September 21, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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

Le Corbusier’s “CIAM-2 (1929)” (1929)

• September 14, 2011 • 2 Comments

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Wilhelm Lotz’s “Weißenhof Exhibition” (1927)

• September 13, 2011 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, functionalism, modernism

Sigfried Giedion’s “Weissenhof Housing Settlement, Stuttgart, 1927″ (1927)

• September 13, 2011 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, Sigfried Giedion, translation, Weissenhof

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

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

• September 10, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, modernism, urbanism/city planning
Tags: 1929, CIAM, Ernst May, modernist architecture, New Frankfurt

CIAM’s La Sarraz Declaration (1928)

• September 8, 2011 • 4 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, De Stijl, functionalism, modernism, urbanism/city planning
Tags: CIAM, Hannes Meyer, La Sarraz Declaration, Le Corbusier

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 “The Constructive Painting of Russian Artist and Constructivism” (1929)

• August 29, 2011 • 5 Comments

Posted in architecture, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism, 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

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Tags: architecture, Neo-Plasticism, Piet Mondrian

Marcel Breuer’s “Where do We Stand?” (1934)

• June 28, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: Marcel Breuer, Stalin

Aleksei Gan’s Constructivism (1922)

• June 23, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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A. Kuzmin’s “Against irresponsible criticism: about the attacks on Leonidov’s projects” (1930)

• June 23, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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Nikolai Dokuchaev’s “The competition for the planning of Magnitogorsk” (1930)

• June 23, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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“Explanatory notes on the OSA Team’s Project for the Socialist Settlement at Magnitogorsk Chemical and Metallurgical Combine” (1930)

• June 23, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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The Editors of Modern Architecture‘s “Palace of Culture for the Proletarskii district of Moscow” (1930)

• June 23, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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Moisei Ginzburg, “Results and Prospects” (1927)

• June 23, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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Mikhail Okhitovich, “On the Problem of the City” (1929)

• June 23, 2011 • 1 Comment

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Nikolai Krasil’nikov, “Problems of Contemporary Architecture: Final Diploma project in Aleksandr Vesnin’s studio in VKhUTEIN, 1928”

• June 23, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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Georgi Krutikov, “The Architectural Research Laboratory in the Architecture Faculty of the VKhUTEMAS-VKhUTEIN: Report on its first two years by Ladovskii’s assistant in the Lab’s operation” (1928)

• June 23, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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Ia.A. Kornfel’d, “Academic Conferences in the VKhUTEMAS” (1926)

• June 23, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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Moisei Ginzburg, “Course Program: ‘Theory of Architectural Composition’” (1926)

• June 23, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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Aleksei Gan, “Notes on Kazimir Malevich” (1927)

• June 23, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: Aleksei Gan

El Lissitzky’s “‘Americanism’ in European Architecture” (1925)

• June 23, 2011 • 2 Comments

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Tags: El Lissitzky

El Lissitzky’s “The Catastrophe of Architecture” (1921)

• June 23, 2011 • 4 Comments

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Tags: Lissitzky

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

• November 17, 2010 • 2 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 • 1 Comment

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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 • 2 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 • 5 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Tags: architecture, expositions, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, translation

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