kodachrome | melnikov
rusakov club, moscow, RU, 1927-29, architect: konstatin melnikov
"Inclined as Melnikov was to identify personally with the new urbanites for whom the workers' clubs were built, he naturally considered his own values relevant to the situation and sought to apply them in the clubs. Hence, as in his own house, he set the clubhouses against the hostile city rather than in it, employing sharply distinctive forms to make them appear 'as individualist against the general backdrop of urban building.' Inside, far from providing space for mobilizing people into a faceless mass, he envisioned settings that would enhance 'close intercourse among people, but in the context of their diverse strivings with respect to one another.'"
— S. Frederick Starr. Melnikov: Solo Architect in a Mass Society. p134-139.
kodachrome | melnikov
rusakov club, moscow, RU, 1927-29, architect: konstatin melnikov
"Inclined as Melnikov was to identify personally with the new urbanites for whom the workers' clubs were built, he naturally considered his own values relevant to the situation and sought to apply them in the clubs. Hence, as in his own house, he set the clubhouses against the hostile city rather than in it, employing sharply distinctive forms to make them appear 'as individualist against the general backdrop of urban building.' Inside, far from providing space for mobilizing people into a faceless mass, he envisioned settings that would enhance 'close intercourse among people, but in the context of their diverse strivings with respect to one another.'"
— S. Frederick Starr. Melnikov: Solo Architect in a Mass Society. p134-139.