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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

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

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

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

Ernő Kállai’s “Architecture” (1924)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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

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

• October 21, 2010 • 3 Comments

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

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

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, functionalism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Anonymous, architectural criticism, architecture, international modernism, neo-classicism, Stalinism, town planning, translation

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

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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

Le Corbusier’s “Words” (1925)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, functionalism, modernism
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

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

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

• October 20, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, De Stijl, functionalism, modernism
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

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

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

• October 19, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
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

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

Modernist Architecture

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

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

Karel Teige’s “Mundaneum” (1929)

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

Ernő Kállai’s “Architecture” (1924)

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

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

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

Le Corbusier’s “Words” (1925)

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

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

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

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

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

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