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1 giu 2014 · The projects for workers’ palaces in Petrograd by I.A. Fomin and Beloborodov (1919) are no more than clumsy borrowings from the worst architecture of the past. It was not until 1925 that the club first found both its true function and a style stripped of outmoded conventions.
8 ago 2023 · Jean-Louis Cohen, 1949-2023. 0. . I am shocked and saddened to learn of the sudden passing of the architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen. Cohen was a giant in his field, perhaps the last capable of producing a truly comprehensive account of modern design from the perspective of someone who still had a stake in its project.
10 apr 2019 · Hillel Ticktin’s contributions to Marxist theory. South African Trotskyist Hillel Ticktin first made a name for himself in the 1970s and 1980s, with a groundbreaking reexamination of the political economy of the USSR. Much of his work has been fragmentary, taking the form of short articles or occasional essays, quite often in polemical ...
30 mag 2019 · Engels on the importance of Hegel to Marxism. 7. Conrad Schmidt was a German economist and intellectual, an early follower of Marxism who corresponded with Engels during the 1890s. He was also older brother of the famed artist Käthe Kollwitz. Neo-Kantian by persuasion, Schmidt nevertheless asked Engels what the philosophical underpinnings of ...
27 mag 2014 · Oud’s Café de Unie façade of 1925, done between more serious designs for Rotterdam civic housing blocks, is a frank and amusing adaptation of such paintings as Mondrian’s Composition of 1920. The lettering on this façade follows de Stijl principles of typographical layout which are classically represented by the cover of the magazine, De ...
5. Nikolai Ladovskii's Rationalist Metro Station in Moscow (1931) Not all of the early Soviet architectural avant-garde was “Constructivist,” strictly speaking. Though this was the title often generically ascribed to all modernist architecture coming out of Russia, only those pieces produced by the architectural group OSA can be considered ...
7 set 2014 · Monoskop recently posted a scan of El Lissitzky and Hans [Jean] Arp’s Kunstismen (1924), translated roughly as The “Isms” of Art. It is reproduced here in its entirety, page by page, or in full-text pdf format. The original text runs in three parallel columns separated by thick dividers, very much in a constructivist style.
