soviet 2

Rusakov Workers' Club

Rusakov Workers' Club

A fundamental space of aggregation for workers in the Soviet context, crucial for education and promoting cultural activities, characterized by protruding volumes and a complex internal organization.

Melnikov House

A rare single-family house representing new forms of urban living, featuring intersecting cylinders, circular rooms with different window treatments, and a combination of bricks and wood in construction.

Abstraction

The act of conceptualizing processes and techniques, removing narration from art to achieve zero communication through pure geometry and colors, exemplified by Malevič's black square on white canvas.

Architectons

Sculptures by Malevič dealing with parallelepipeds in various forms, devoid of function or material, focusing on volumes and structure.

Lissitzky

An artist painting simple geometrical forms and experimenting with 2D and 3D representations, including a horizontal skyscraper design, showcasing a break with conventions and collaboration with engineers to realize spatial dimensions.

Soviet Journals

Crucial for spreading new architectural experiments, preserving ideas through graphical experimentation, and playing a significant role in the dissemination of avant-garde movements in the 1920s.

Divorce between Art and Politics

Evident in the 1930s with a break in the relationship between architecture and the regime, leading to a halt in architectural progress and experimentation.