Saturday, December 03, 2011

Building the Revolution @ Royal Academy of Arts in London

Havsko Shabolovski residential block and the radio tower Shabolovka, Moscow
This exhibition examines Russian avant-garde architecture made during a brief but intense period of design and construction that took place from c.1922 to 1935. Fired by the Constructivist art that emerged in Russia from c.1915, architects transformed this radical artistic language into three dimensions, creating structures whose innovative style embodied the energy and optimism of the new Soviet Socialist state.

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