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

• November 19, 2011 • 1 Comment

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Futurism: An Anthology

• September 21, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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Le Corbusier’s “CIAM-2 (1929)” (1929)

• September 14, 2011 • 3 Comments

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

• September 10, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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CIAM’s La Sarraz Declaration (1928)

• September 8, 2011 • 4 Comments

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

• June 23, 2011 • 1 Comment

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CIAM’s “The Athens Charter” (1933)

• November 3, 2010 • 10 Comments

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Sigfried Giedion’s Building in France, Building in Ferro-concrete (1928)

• November 2, 2010 • 3 Comments

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Nikolai Miliutin’s Sotsgorod: The Problem of Building Socialist Cities (1930)

• November 1, 2010 • 7 Comments

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Walter Gropius’ “Houses, Walk-ups or High-rise Apartment Blocks?” (1931)

• October 28, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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