Archive for June, 2011

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

• June 28, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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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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Moisei Ginzburg’s “New Methods of Architectural Thought” (1926)

• June 23, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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Nikolai Ladovskii, “The Psychotechnical Laboratory of Architecture: Posing the Problem” (1926)

• June 23, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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Nikolai Ladovskii, “On the Program of the Working Group of Architects in INKhUK,” from protocols of their meetings (March 26-27, 1921)

• June 23, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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

• June 23, 2011 • 2 Comments

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

• June 23, 2011 • 4 Comments

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