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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

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

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

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

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’ 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

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 “The Industrialization of Building Methods” (1924)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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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

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

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

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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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

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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

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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

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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

Traugott Schakher’s “El Lissitzky” (1928)

• October 24, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: El Lissitzky, modernism, Russian avant-garde, Russian modernism, translation, Traugott Schakher

Hans Richter’s “Prague” (1924)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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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

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

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

• October 23, 2010 • 2 Comments

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Tags: architecture, design, functionalism, Mart Stam, modernism, translation

Mart Stam’s “Space” (1925)

• October 23, 2010 • 4 Comments

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Tags: architectural theory, architecture, El Lissitzky, Mart Stam, modernism, space, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “Constructivism” (1923)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: art criticism, Constructivism, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, Expressionism, modernism, non-objective art, Suprematism, theory of art, translation

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

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, art, Ernso Kallai, Ernst Kallai, Hungarian avant-garde, Lajos Kassak, modernism, 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

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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

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

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

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 “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

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

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

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

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

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

Hannes Meyer’s “building” (1928)

• October 20, 2010 • 2 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 • 3 Comments

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

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)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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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

Posted in architecture, functionalism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architecture, Ernst May, Magnitogorsk, modernism, revolution, socialism, socialist cities, Soviet Union, town planning, translation, urbanism, USSR

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

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

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)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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

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