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Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk). NKVD Settelment, architects I.Antonov, V.Sokolov, A.Tumbasov, 1930
(Slogan on the building: Forward in Communism!)
Photo: 1985
Designed by Roman Cieslewicz 1977.
Constructivism, photomantage, Expressionism, revolutionary graphic design, and more from his lifetime of work.
florey building, oxford, england 1966-1971
architect: james stirling, 1926-1992.
after the rain.
apologies for the forced perspective of this autostitch, but this is how close to the florey you come as you walk along the isis.
the fence suggests that stirling's ambition to make the courtyard an open, semi-private space has failed. is that because of crime rates in oxford, is it to keep out rampant architecture students, or is it rather an expression of the hostility of the owners to their own building, famously unable to keep out rain, wind, noise, cold?
the stirling set so far.
Russia. Moscow. Moskva river. "House on the Embankment" (official name - Government House) is a residential complex built in 1931 on the Bersenevskaya embankment of the Moscow River. Until 1952 it was the tallest residential building in Moscow. Monument of constructivist architecture.
Mentioned many times in literature, in particular in the story of the same name by Yury Valentinovich Trifonov
Россия. Москва. Москва река. "Дом на набережной" (официальное название — Дом правительства; также известен как Первый Дом Советов, Дом ЦИК и СНК СССР) — жилой комплекс постройки 1931 года на Берсеневской набережной Москвы-реки. До 1952 г. был самым высоким жилым зданием Москвы. Памятник архитектуры конструктивизма.
Многократно упоминается в литературе, в частности в одноимённой повести Ю. Трифонова
Varvara Stepanova (1894 – 1958) was a Russian artist. With her husband Alexander Rodchenko, she was associated with the Constructivist branch of the Russian avant-garde, which rejected aesthetic values in favour of revolutionary ones. Her activities extended into propaganda, poetry, stage scenery and textile designs.
400mm high. Various woods including ebony, teak, oak, rubberwood, mahogany, lemonwood charred pine, plywood, beech, walnut. Some recycled wood, some driftwood, some bespoke elements.
Ok, this is going to sound a bit pretentious, but for some reason when I look at this, I keep thinking of a quote I had to memorise in college by Walter Gropius.
"Let us therefore create a new guild of craftspeople, free of the divisive class pretensions that endeavoured to raise a prideful barrier between craftspeople and artists! Let us strive for, conceive and create the new building of the future that will unite every discipline, architecture and sculpture and painting, and which will one day rise heavenwards from the million hands of craftsmen and women as a clear symbol of a new belief to come." (I have slightly modified this quote to be more inclusive, but you still get the jist).
Probably something to do with the fact that this is as much craft as art and its visual energy is pointing heavenward.
I created this poster as an birthday gift for Kriesse. I ended up producing a small print run for friends and allies.
A huge thank you to Sarah, for letting me use her lovely self-portrait for the artwork. The quote is from Ersichtlichkeiten. Internationale visuelle Texte der 90er, which i like a lot. See a bigger version here.
Sarah took the photo.
tring Quartet No 8, in C Minor, Op. 110 Dimtri Shostakovich
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"Gold" Building
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Category: Blocks
Period: înc. sec. XX, 1934
Importance: B
LMI code: B-II-m-B-18209
Address: Bd. Botev Hristo 34 sector 3
Location: municipiul BUCUREŞTI
District: Bucuresti
Region: Muntenia
Imobilul Solly Gold
Blocul "Gold"
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Categorie: Blocuri/imobile
Perioada: înc. sec. XX, 1934
Importanta: B
Cod LMI: B-II-m-B-18209
Adresa: Bd. Botev Hristo 34 sector 3
Localitate: municipiul BUCUREŞTI
Judet: Bucuresti
Regiune: Muntenia
architect Marcel Janco
arhitect Marcel Iancu
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Marcel Janco
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Marcel Iancu
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Marcel Hermann Iancu
Born: May 24, 1895; Bucharest, Romania
Died: April 21, 1984; Israel
Nationality: Jewish, Romanian, Israeli
Art Movement: Dada, Constructivism
Marcel Janco’s Contribution to Modern Architecture in Romania
Professor Dr. Ana-Maria Zahariade, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism (UAUIM), Bucharest
1929 Constructivist telephone exchange building on Pokrovsky boulevard, Moscow (designed by V.Martynovich) demolished in 2016 to make room for a nasty taste apartment hotel
Таганская АТС на Покровском бульваре
арх. В.С. Мартынович
1929 г.
The sleeping rooms in the ground floor of the Melnikov House (Дом Мельникова), by Konstantin Melnikov (1929).
The ones in the left and in the centre were the rooms for the children (with triangles of different colours on the ceiling, both with a genuin avant-garde taste), while the one on the right is just a little part of the room for Melnikov himself and his wife. The point of view of this photo is highlighted in yellow on the plant posted in the first comment.
Moscow, Russia.
© Roberto Conte (2016)
It's a fragment of a house (Narkomfin House) that was once (late 1920s) a showcase of Russia's cutting-edge constructivism architecture. It's now half-abandoned, half-destroyed. Curiously, it's located right next to the U.S. Embassy in the very center of Moscow, Lubitel + Kodak160vc (cross). A truly sad place. To be continued.