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These are some of the questions we could discuss in reference to “Contours of the World Commune,” from Endnotes No. 5. Founded in 2003, the Berlin-based circle “Friends of the Classless Society” occasionally publish the journal Kosmoprolet together with similar tiny groups.
Mar 12, 2014 · The architectonics — “Alpha” of horizontal building and “Gota” of vertical — reveal those features, which, it seems to me, ought to be in the new architecture. (See the “Alpha” of Malevich’s dynamic Suprematism and the architectonics of the artist N.M. Suetin).
“Our world, like a charnel-house, lies strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.” ⎯ Le Corbusier, Urbanisme (1925)
Aug 9, 2024 · So I went with some friends to the Hegelian e-girls’ VIP “symposium” last Saturday, August 3. It was held in the backdoor patio space of a Persian restaurant in Crown Heights, where they sometimes hold DSA meetings. The event attracted a strange mix of people.
Jun 6, 2014 · Iakov Georgievich Chernikhov was one of the most outstandingly original artists of a period which produced many great talents. He was born on December 17, 1889 in the Ukrainian provincial town of Pavlograd, and studied first at Odessa College of Art, from which he graduated in 1914, and then at Petrograd’s famous Imperial Art Academy, now the ...
Jun 3, 2014 · Le Corbusier’s “contemporary city” (1925) 6. . The existing congestion in the center must be eliminated. The use of technical analysis and architectural synthesis enabled me to draw up my scheme for a contemporary city of three million inhabitants. The result of my work was shown in November 1922 at the Salon d’Automne in Paris.
Jul 16, 2014 · Chernikhov is a pioneer, a trail-blazer of new themes in graphic art, and also, in part, of new modes of graphic design. — Erikh Gollerbakh, 1930. Regular readers of The Charnel-House will know that I’ve already written on the brilliant architect and designer Iakov Chernikhov (1889-1951).
Sep 16, 2013 · PROUN is understood as the creative construction of form (based on the mastery of space) assisted by economic construction of the applied material. The goal of PROUN is progressive movement on the way to concrete creation, and not the substantiation, explanation, or promotion of life.
May 27, 2014 · Very little has been written in the way of in-depth analysis of the Dutch functionalist architect JJP Oud’s Café de Unie in Rotterdam. The building caused a bit of a stir when it was first unveiled to the public in 1925.
Oct 5, 2013 · iconic constructivist masterpiece. . Over the last couple years I’ve amassed a frightening number of high-quality photographs and image scans depicting Moisei Ginzburg and Ignatii Milinis’ Dom Narkomfin in Moscow. It is, without question, one of the most iconic pieces of Soviet constructivist architecture that was actually realized.
