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146 relations: Abstract art, Aelita, Aleksandra Ekster, Alexander Rodchenko, Alexander Vesnin, Alexey Shchusev, Almaty, Andrey Kryachkov, Antoine Pevsner, Arbat Street, Archigram, Arkady Mordvinov, Art Deco, ASNOVA, Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage, Bank of Georgia headquarters, Bauhaus, Berthold Lubetkin, Bolshoy Dom, Boris Iofan, Bratislava, Broadacre City, Bruno Taut, Brutalist architecture, Buckminster Fuller, Communal House of the Textile Institute, Communism, Communist International, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Constructivism (art), Coop Himmelb(l)au, Cubism, Deconstructivism, Derzhprom, Dessau, Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, El Lissitzky, Empire State Building, Erich Mendelsohn, Ernst May, First five-year plan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Freedom Square (Kharkiv), Functionalism (architecture), Futurist architecture, Garden city movement, Georgy Krutikov, Gestalt psychology, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Gustav Klutsis, ..., Guy Debord, Hannes Meyer, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, House on the Embankment, Ilya Golosov, International Style (architecture), Ivan Fomin, Ivan Leonidov, Ivan Nikolaev, Ivan Zholtovsky, Izvestia, Karel Teige, Kauchuk Factory Club, Kazimir Malevich, Kenneth Frampton, Kenzō Tange, Kharkiv, Khrushchyovka, Kinetic art, Konstantin Melnikov, Le Corbusier, LEF (journal), Life (magazine), Linear city, Lloyd's building, Magnitogorsk, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Mart Stam, Melnikov, Mikhail Okhitovich, Modern architecture, Moisei Ginzburg, Moscow, Moscow Metro, Mosselprom Building, Narkomfin building, Naum Gabo, New Economic Policy, Nikolai Kolli, Nikolai Ladovsky, NKVD, Noi Trotsky, Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage, Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Globus Theatre, OSA Group, Palace of the Soviets, Panteleimon Golosov, People's Commissariat for Education, People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry, Philip Johnson, Postconstructivism, Postmodernism, Pravda, Productivism (art), Proletkult, Realistic Manifesto, Red Banner Textile Factory, Rem Koolhaas, Reyner Banham, Richard Rogers, Rostov-on-Don, Rusakov Workers' Club, Russian Civil War, Russian Futurism, Russian Revolution, Saint Petersburg, Sergei Eisenstein, Shukhov Tower, Situationist International, Slovakia, Social condenser, Soviet Union, Stalinist architecture, Suprematism, Svoboda Factory Club, Tatlin's Tower, Team 10, Tsentrosoyuz building, UNESCO, UNOVIS, Utilitarianism, Varvara Stepanova, Vesnin brothers, Viktor Vesnin, Vkhutemas, Vladimir Krinsky, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Shukhov, Vladimir Tatlin, Walter Benjamin, Walter Gropius, Yakov Chernikhov, Yekaterinburg, Zaha Hadid, Zuev Workers' Club. Expand index (96 more) »
Abstract art
Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.
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Aelita
Aelita (Аэли́та), also known as Aelita: Queen of Mars, is a silent film directed by Soviet filmmaker Yakov Protazanov made at the Mezhrabpom-Rus film studio and released in 1924.
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Aleksandra Ekster
Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster (Александра Александровна Экстер, Олександра Олександрівна Екстер; 18 January 1882 – 17 March 1949), also known as Alexandra Exter, was a Russian painter (Cubo-Futurist, Suprematist, Constructivist) and designer of international stature who divided her life between Kiev, St.
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Alexander Rodchenko
Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Ро́дченко; – December 3, 1956) was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer.
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Alexander Vesnin
Alexander Aleksandrovic Vesnin (Александр Александрович Веснин) (1883, Yuryevets – 1959, Moscow), together with his brothers Leonid and Viktor, was a leading light of Constructivist architecture.
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Alexey Shchusev
Alexey Viktorovich Shchusev (Алексе́й Ви́кторович Щу́сев; – 24 May 1949) was an acclaimed Russian and Soviet architect whose works may be regarded as a bridge connecting Revivalist architecture of Imperial Russia with Stalin's Empire Style.
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Almaty
Almaty (Алматы, Almaty; Алматы), formerly known as Alma-Ata (Алма-Ата) and Verny (Верный Vernyy), is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of 1,797,431 people, about 8% of the country's total population.
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Andrey Kryachkov
Andrey Kryachkov (1876–1950) was a Russian architect.
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Antoine Pevsner
Antoine Pevsner (12 April 1962) was a Russian-born sculptor and the older brother of Alexii Pevsner and Naum Gabo.
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Arbat Street
Arbat Street (Russian), mainly referred to in English as the Arbat, is a pedestrian street about one kilometer long in the historical centre of Moscow, Russia.
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Archigram
Archigram was an avant-garde architectural group formed in the 1960s - based at the Architectural Association, London - that was neofuturistic, anti-heroic and pro-consumerist, drawing inspiration from technology in order to create a new reality that was solely expressed through hypothetical projects.
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Arkady Mordvinov
Arkady Grigoryevich Mordvinov (Аркадий Григорьевич Мордвинов; born Mordvishev (Мордвишев), January 27, 1896 – July 23, 1964) was a Soviet architect and construction manager, notable for Stalinist architecture of Tverskaya Street, Leninsky Avenue, Hotel Ukraina skyscraper in Moscow and his administrative role in Soviet construction industry and architecture.
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Art Deco
Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners.
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ASNOVA
ASNOVA (АСНОВА; abbreviation for АСсоциация НОВых Архитекторов, Association of New Architects) was an Avant-Garde architectural association in the Soviet Union, which was active in the 1920s and early 1930s, commonly called 'the Rationalists'.
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Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage
Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage was a public bus garage in Moscow, designed in 1926 by Konstantin Melnikov (floorplan concept and architectural design) and Vladimir Shukhov (structural engineering).
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Bank of Georgia headquarters
The Bank of Georgia headquarters (საქართველოს ბანკის სათავო ოფისი) is a building in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Bauhaus
Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught.
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Berthold Lubetkin
Berthold Romanovich Lubetkin (14 December 1901 – 23 October 1990) was a Russian émigré architect who pioneered modernist design in Britain in the 1930s.
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Bolshoy Dom
Bolshoy Dom (Большой дом, lit. the Big House) is an office building located at 4 Liteyny Avenue in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Boris Iofan
Boris Mihailovich Iofan (p; April 28, 1891–1976) was a Jewish Soviet architect, known for his Stalinist architecture buildings like 1931 House on the Embankment and the 1931-1933 winning draft of the Palace of Soviets.
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Bratislava
Bratislava (Preßburg or Pressburg, Pozsony) is the capital of Slovakia.
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Broadacre City
Broadacre City was an urban or suburban development concept proposed by Frank Lloyd Wright throughout most of his lifetime.
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Bruno Taut
Bruno Julius Florian Taut (4 May 1880 – 24 December 1938) was a prolific German architect, urban planner and author active during the Weimar period.
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Brutalist architecture
Brutalist architecture flourished from 1951 to 1975, having descended from the modernist architectural movement of the early 20th century.
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Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist.
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Communal House of the Textile Institute
Communal House of the Textile Institute (also known simply as Nikolaev's House) is a constructivist architecture landmark located in the Donskoy District of Moscow, Russia.
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Communism
In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.
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Communist International
The Communist International (Comintern), known also as the Third International (1919–1943), was an international communist organization that advocated world communism.
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Constant Nieuwenhuys
Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys (21 July 1920 – 1 August 2005), better known as Constant, was a Dutch painter, sculptor, graphic artist, author and musician.
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Constructivism (art)
Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1913 by Vladimir Tatlin.
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Coop Himmelb(l)au
Coop Himmelb(l)au was founded by Wolf D. Prix, Helmut Swiczinsky, and Michael Holzer in Vienna, Austria, in 1968, and is active in architecture, urban planning, design, and art.
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Cubism
Cubism is an early-20th-century art movement which brought European painting and sculpture historically forward toward 20th century Modern art.
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Deconstructivism
Deconstructivism is a movement of postmodern architecture which appeared in the 1980s, which gives the impression of the fragmentation of the constructed building.
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Derzhprom
The Derzhprom or Gosprom (Держпром; Госпром) building is a constructivist structure located in Freedom Square, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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Dessau
Dessau is a town and former municipality in Germany on the junction of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the Bundesland (Federal State) of Saxony-Anhalt.
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Dnieper Hydroelectric Station
The Dnieper Hydroelectric Station (ДніпроГЕС - DniproHES, ДнепроГЭС - DneproGES, also known as Dneprostroi Dam) is the largest hydroelectric power station on the Dnieper River, located in Zaporizhia, Ukraine.
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El Lissitzky
Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (Ла́зарь Ма́ркович Лиси́цкий,; – December 30, 1941), known as El Lissitzky (Эль Лиси́цкий, על ליסיצקי), was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect.
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Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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Erich Mendelsohn
Erich Mendelsohn (21 March 1887 – 15 September 1953) was a Jewish German architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and cinemas.
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Ernst May
Ernst May (27 July 1886 – 11 September 1970) was a German architect and city planner.
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First five-year plan
The first five-year plan (I пятилетний план, первая пятилетка) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a list of economic goals, created by General Secretary Joseph Stalin and based on his policy of Socialism in One Country.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed.
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Freedom Square (Kharkiv)
Freedom Square (Площа Свободи, Plóshcha Svobodý; Площадь Свободы, Plóshchad' Svobódy) in Kharkiv is the 8th largest city-centre square in Europe.
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Functionalism (architecture)
In architecture, functionalism is the principle that buildings should be designed based solely on the purpose and function of the building.
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Futurist architecture
Futurist architecture is an early-20th century form of architecture born in Italy, characterized by strong chromaticism, long dynamic lines, suggesting speed, motion, urgency and lyricism: it was a part of Futurism, an artistic movement founded by the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who produced its first manifesto, the Manifesto of Futurism in 1909.
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Garden city movement
The garden city movement is a method of urban planning in which self-contained communities are surrounded by "greenbelts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry, and agriculture.
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Georgy Krutikov
Georgy Tikhonovich Krutikov (1899–1958) was a Russian constructivist architect and artist, noted for his Flying City.
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Gestalt psychology
Gestalt psychology or gestaltism (from Gestalt "shape, form") is a philosophy of mind of the Berlin School of experimental psychology.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Giovanni Battista (also Giambattista or Piranesi) (4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" (Le Carceri d'Invenzione).
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Gustav Klutsis
Gustav Klutsis (Gustavs Klucis, Густав Густавович Клуцис) (January 4, 1895 – February 26, 1938) was a pioneering Latvian photographer and major member of the Constructivist avant-garde in the early 20th century.
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Guy Debord
Guy Louis Debord (28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International (SI).
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Hannes Meyer
Hans Emil "Hannes" Meyer (November 18, 1889 – July 19, 1954) was a Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus (in Dessau) from 1928 to 1930.
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Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Henry-Russell Hitchcock (1903–1987) was an American architectural historian.
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House on the Embankment
The House on the Embankment (Дом на набережной) is a block-wide apartment building on the banks of the Moskva on Balchug in downtown Moscow, Russia.
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Ilya Golosov
Ilya Alexandrovich Golosov (1883 in Moscow – 1945 in Moscow) was a Russian Soviet architect.
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International Style (architecture)
The International Style is the name of a major architectural style that developed in the 1920s and 1930s and strongly related to Modernism and Modern architecture.
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Ivan Fomin
Ivan Aleksandrovich Fomin (3 February 1872, Oryol – 12 June 1936, Moscow) was a Russian architect and educator.
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Ivan Leonidov
Ivan Ilich Leonidov (Иван Ильич Леонидов, 9 February 1902 – 6 November 1959) was a Russian constructivist architect, urban planner, painter and teacher.
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Ivan Nikolaev
Ivan Sergeevich Nikolaev (19011979) was a Soviet architect and educator, notable for his late 1920s constructivist architecture and later work in industrial architecture.
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Ivan Zholtovsky
Ivan Vladislavovich Zholtovsky (Иван Владиславович Жолтовский Іван Уладзіслававіч Жалтоўскі, 1867–1959) was a Russian-Soviet architect and educator.
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Izvestia
Izvestia (p) is a long-running high-circulation daily broadsheet newspaper in Russia.
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Karel Teige
Karel Teige (13 December 1900 – 1 October 1951) was a Czech modernist avant-garde artist, writer, critic and one of the most important figures of the 1920s and 1930s movement.
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Kauchuk Factory Club
Kauchuk Factory Club (Клуб завода «Каучук») is a 1927-1929 constructivist public building designed by Konstantin Melnikov, located in Khamovniki District of Moscow, Russia on the edge of Devichye Pole park and medical campus at 64, Plyshikha Street.
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Kazimir Malevich
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (// ЦГИАК Украины, ф. 1268, оп. 1, д. 26, л. 13об—14.–May 15, 1935) was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing had a profound influence on the development of non-objective, or abstract art, in the 20th century.
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Kenneth Frampton
Kenneth Brian Frampton (born 1930 in Woking, UK), is a British architect, critic, historian and the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York.
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Kenzō Tange
was a Japanese architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture.
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Kharkiv
Kharkiv (Ха́рків), also known as Kharkov (Ха́рьков) from Russian, is the second-largest city in Ukraine.
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Khrushchyovka
Khrushchyovka (p) is an unofficial name of a type of low-cost, concrete-paneled or brick three- to five-storied apartment building which was developed in the Soviet Union during the early 1960s, during the time its namesake Nikita Khrushchev directed the Soviet government.
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Kinetic art
Kinetic art is art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for its effect.
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Konstantin Melnikov
Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov (Russian: Константин Степанович Мельников; – November 28, 1974) was a Russian architect and painter.
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Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.
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LEF (journal)
LEF ("ЛЕФ") was the journal of the Left Front of the Arts ("Левый фронт искусств""Levy Front Iskusstv"), a widely ranging association of avant-garde writers, photographers, critics and designers in the Soviet Union.
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Life (magazine)
Life was an American magazine that ran regularly from 1883 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000.
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Linear city
The linear city was an urban plan for an elongated urban formation.
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Lloyd's building
The Lloyd's building (sometimes known as the Inside-Out Building) is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London.
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Magnitogorsk
Magnitogorsk (p, lit. city near the magnetic mountain) is an industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the eastern side of the extreme southern extent of the Ural Mountains by the Ural River.
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Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
Margarete "Grete" Schütte-Lihotzky (January 23, 1897, Margareten bei Wien, Austria-Hungary – January 18, 2000) was the first female Austrian architect and a communist activist in the German resistance to Nazism.
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Mart Stam
Mart Stam (August 5, 1899 – February 21, 1986) was a Dutch architect, urban planner, and furniture designer.
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Melnikov
Melnikov (Ме́льников) is a surname of Russian origin.
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Mikhail Okhitovich
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Okhitovich (Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Охито́вич) (1896—1937) was a Bolshevik sociologist, town planner and Constructivist architectural theorist, most famous for his 'Disurbanist' proposals of 1929-30.
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Modern architecture
Modern architecture or modernist architecture is a term applied to a group of styles of architecture which emerged in the first half of the 20th century and became dominant after World War II.
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Moisei Ginzburg
Moisei Yakovlevich Ginzburg (Майсей Якаўлевіч Гінзбург, Моисей Яковлевич Гинзбург;, Minsk – 7 January 1946, Moscow) was a Soviet constructivist architect, best known for his 1929 Narkomfin Building in Moscow.
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Moscow
Moscow (a) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area.
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Moscow Metro
The Moscow Metro (p) is a rapid transit system serving Moscow, Russia and the neighbouring Moscow Oblast cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki.
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Mosselprom Building
The Mosselprom building (Russian: Дом Моссельпрома) is a monument to Russian constructivism and avantgarde architecture.
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Narkomfin building
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Naum Gabo
Naum Gabo, born Naum Neemia Pevsner (23 August 1977) (Hebrew: נחום נחמיה פבזנר), was an influential sculptor, theorist, and key figure in Russia's post-Revolution avant-garde and the subsequent development of twentieth-century sculpture.
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New Economic Policy
The New Economic Policy (NEP, Russian новая экономическая политика, НЭП) was an economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin in 1921 as a temporary expedient.
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Nikolai Kolli
Nikolai Dzhemsovich (Yakovlevich) Kolli (Николай Джемсович (Яковлевич) Колли) (– 3 December 1966) was a Russian Modernist—Constructivist architect, Soviet architectural functionary, and city planner in the Soviet Union.
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Nikolai Ladovsky
Nikolai Alexandrovich Ladovsky (Russian: Николай Александрович Ладовский) (1881–1941) was a Russian avant-garde architect and educator, leader of the rationalist movement in 1920s architecture, an approach emphasizing human perception of space and shape.
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NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Народный комиссариат внутренних дел, Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del), abbreviated NKVD (НКВД), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union.
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Noi Trotsky
Noi (Noah) Abramovich Trotsky (Ной Абра́мович Тро́цкий; March 15, 1895 – November 19, 1940) was a renowned Soviet architect.
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Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage
Novoryazanskaya Street Garage, also spelled Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage, and known as "Horseshoe garage", was designed by Konstantin Melnikov and Vladimir Shukhov (structural engineering) in 1926 and completed in 1929 at 27, Novoryazanskaya Street in Krasnoselsky District, Moscow, Russia, near Kazansky Rail Terminal.
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Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk (p) is the third-most populous city in Russia after Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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Novosibirsk Globus Theatre
Novosibirsk Globus Theatre (Новосибирский академический молодёжный театр «Глобус») is a theatre in Novosibirsk city, Siberia, Russia.
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OSA Group
The OSA Group (Organization of Contemporary Architects) was an architectural association in the Soviet Union, which was active from 1925 to 1930 and considered the first group of constructivist architects.
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Palace of the Soviets
The Palace of the Soviets (Дворец Советов, Dvorets Sovetov) was a project to construct an administrative center and a congress hall in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (present-day Russian Federation) near the Kremlin, on the site of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
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Panteleimon Golosov
Panteleimon Alexandrovich Golosov (1882, Moscow – 1945, Moscow) was a Russian Constructivist architect and brother of Ilya Golosov.
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People's Commissariat for Education
The People's Commissariat for Education (or Narkompros; Народный комиссариат просвещения, Наркомпрос) was the Soviet agency charged with the administration of public education and most other issues related to culture.
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People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry
The People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry (Narkomtiazhprom; Народный комиссариат тяжёлой промышленности СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union.
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Philip Johnson
Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect.
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Postconstructivism
Postconstructivism was a transitional architectural style that existed in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, typical of early Stalinist architecture before World War II.
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Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.
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Pravda
Pravda (a, "Truth") is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, formerly the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million.
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Productivism (art)
Productivism was an art movement founded by a group of Constructivist artists in post-Revolutionary Russia who believed that art should have a practical, socially useful role as a facet of industrial production.
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Proletkult
Proletkult (p), a portmanteau of the Russian words "proletarskaya kultura" (proletarian culture), was an experimental Soviet artistic institution that arose in conjunction with the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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Realistic Manifesto
The Realistic Manifesto is a key text of Constructivism.
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Red Banner Textile Factory
The Red Banner Textile Factory (Трикотажная фабрика «Красное Знамя»; Trikotazhnaya fabrika "Krasnoye Znamya") in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), Pionerskaya ulitsa (Pioneers street), 53 was designed by Erich Mendelsohn and later partly redesigned by S. O. Ovsyannikov, E. A. Tretyakov, and Hyppolit Pretreaus (the senior architect of the project).
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Rem Koolhaas
Remment Lucas "Rem" Koolhaas (born 17 November 1945) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
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Reyner Banham
Peter Reyner Banham, FRIBA (2 March 1922 – 19 March 1988) was an English architectural critic and writer best known for his theoretical treatise Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1960) and for his 1971 book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies.
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Richard Rogers
Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs in high-tech architecture.
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Rostov-on-Don
Rostov-on-Don (p) is a port city and the administrative center of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia.
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Rusakov Workers' Club
The Rusakov Workers' Club (Дом культуры имени И.В.Русакова (рабочий клуб)) in Moscow is a notable example of constructivist architecture.
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Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War (Grazhdanskaya voyna v Rossiyi; November 1917 – October 1922) was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the Russian Revolutions of 1917, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
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Russian Futurism
Russian Futurism was a movement of Russian poets and artists who adopted the principles of Filippo Marinetti's "Manifesto of Futurism," which espoused the rejection of the past, and a celebration of speed, machinery, violence, youth and industry; it also advocated the modernization and cultural rejuvenation.
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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.
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Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).
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Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (p; 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.
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Shukhov Tower
The Shukhov radio tower (Шуховская башня), also known as the Shabolovka tower (Шаболовская башня), is a broadcasting tower in Moscow designed by Vladimir Shukhov.
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Situationist International
The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists, prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution in 1972.
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Slovakia
Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
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Social condenser
From Soviet constructivist theory, the social condenser is a spatial idea practiced in architecture.
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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Stalinist architecture
Stalinist architecture, also referred to as Stalinist Empire style or Socialist Classicism, is a term given to architecture of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, between 1933, when Boris Iofan's draft for Palace of the Soviets was officially approved, and 1955, when Nikita Khrushchev condemned "excesses" of the past decades and disbanded the Soviet Academy of Architecture.
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Suprematism
Suprematism (Супремати́зм) is an art movement, focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colors.
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Svoboda Factory Club
Svoboda Factory Club (Russian:Клуб фабрики "Свобода"), conceived as Chemists Trade Union Club (Клуб Химиков), also known as Maxim Gorky Palace of Culture (Дворец культуры имени Горького), is a listed memorial avant-garde building in Moscow, Russia, designed by Konstantin Melnikov in 1927 and completed in 1929.
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Tatlin's Tower
Tatlin’s Tower, or the project for the Monument to the Third International (1919–20),Honour, H. and Fleming, J. (2009) A World History of Art.
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Team 10
Team 10 — just as often referred to as Team X or Team Ten — was a group of architects and other invited participants who assembled starting in July 1953 at the 9th Congress of the International Congresses of Modern Architecture (CIAM) and created a schism within CIAM by challenging its doctrinaire approach to urbanism.
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Tsentrosoyuz building
The Tsentrosoyuz Building or Centrosoyuz Building (Центросоюз) is a government structure in Moscow, Russia, constructed in 1933 by Le Corbusier and Nikolai Kolli.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.
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UNOVIS
UNOVIS (also known as MOLPOSNOVIS and POSNOVIS) was a short-lived but influential group of artists, founded and led by Kazimir Malevich at the Vitebsk Art School in 1919.
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Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that states that the best action is the one that maximizes utility.
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Varvara Stepanova
Varvara Fyodorovna Stepanova (Варва́ра Фёдоровна Степа́нова; November 9, 1894 – May 20, 1958) was a Russian artist associated with the Constructivist movement.
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Vesnin brothers
The Vesnin brothers: Leonid Vesnin (1880–1933), Victor Vesnin (1882–1950) and Alexander Vesnin (1883–1959) were the leaders of Constructivist architecture, the dominant architectural school of the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s.
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Viktor Vesnin
Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin (Виктор Александрович Веснин, 1882–1950), was a Russian Soviet architect.
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Vkhutemas
Vkhutemas (p, acronym for Высшие художественно-технические мастерские Vysshiye Khudozhestvenno-Tekhnicheskiye Masterskiye "Higher Art and Technical Studios") was the Russian state art and technical school founded in 1920 in Moscow, replacing the Moscow Svomas.
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Vladimir Krinsky
Vladimir Fyodorovich Krinsky (Владимир Фёдорович Кринский; 19 December 1890 – 2 April 1971) was a Russian artist and architect active with the ASNOVA architectural organisation and linked with the Cologne Progressives.
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Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (22 April 1870According to the new style calendar (modern Gregorian), Lenin was born on 22 April 1870. According to the old style (Old Julian) calendar used in the Russian Empire at the time, it was 10 April 1870. Russia converted from the old to the new style calendar in 1918, under Lenin's administration. – 21 January 1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist.
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Vladimir Shukhov
Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov (Влади́мир Григо́рьевич Шу́хов; – 2 February 1939) was a Russian engineer-polymath, scientist and architect renowned for his pioneering works on new methods of analysis for structural engineering that led to breakthroughs in industrial design of the world's first hyperboloid structures, diagrid shell structures, tensile structures, gridshell structures, oil reservoirs, pipelines, boilers, ships and barges.
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Vladimir Tatlin
Vladimir Yevgraphovich Tatlin (Влади́мир Евгра́фович Та́тлин; – 31 May 1953) was a Soviet painter and architect.
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Walter Benjamin
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist.
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Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.
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Yakov Chernikhov
Yakov Georgievich Chernikhov (Яков Георгиевич Чернихов) (5 (17) December 1889 in Pavlograd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire (now Pavlohrad, Ukraine) – 9 May 1951 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a constructivist architect and graphic designer.
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Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg (p), alternatively romanized Ekaterinburg, is the fourth-largest city in Russia and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast, located on the Iset River east of the Ural Mountains, in the middle of the Eurasian continent, at the boundary between Asia and Europe.
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Zaha Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid (زها حديد Zahā Ḥadīd; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect.
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Zuev Workers' Club
The Zuyev Workers' Club (Клуб имени Зуева) in Moscow is a prominent work of constructivist architecture.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivist_architecture
