Socialist architecture

[VitMos]

Stalin statue, Erevan, USSR, 1962

[VitMos]

Odessa, USSR.1968

[VitMos]

Moscow


http://vk.com/kirill_opex

[VitMos]

http://prestigeda.blogspot.com/2012/...g-post_23.html

[CHLayson]

i love yerevan airport too..

[VitMos]

Khabarovsk. 1927-1928


http://qouqesique.com/Photo/%D0%A1%D...D1%8C%20I..htm

[VitMos]

Moscow, 1935

1963

1955


http://www.oldmos.ru/

[VitMos]

[Сталин]

^
Moscow would have been great.

[sebanaj]

The higher goals that should be fulfilled give socialist architecture its reason to exist, not mere appearance. From a macrosocial view more people can achieve to live well if design costs are taken down globally and those resources that can be used for something else like health.

[ScanTron]

Originally Posted by sebanaj

The higher goals that should be fulfilled give socialist architecture its reason to exist, not mere appearance. From a macrosocial view more people can achieve to live well if design costs are taken down globally and those resources that can be used for something else like health.

Sorry to continue the political discussion but your assumption is very flimsy. It is generally the free market that puts downward pressure on costs, not state controls. Socialism achieves it's goal of equality by bringing everybody down (except for the socialist elite, of course). I'll leave it at that.

[trigaman]

nice

[AlekseyVT]

Palace of the Soviets in the episodes of Russian film "Spy" (2012) - fictional alternate history:

[desertpunk]

Moscow construction 1969


http://archimaps.tumblr.com/

[No1]

Originally Posted by Nico_Uru

Another one of my favourite's is the various Soviet exhibitions during the 1920s and 1930s. You can clearly see, expressed in the architecture, a shift from the revolutionary/constructivist spirit of the 1920s exemplified by the Soviet pavilion in the 1925 Paris expo; to the reactionary, neo-classical Stalinist period in the Soviet pavilion in the 1937 Paris expo.

Yes, truly Revolutionary architecture is Constructivism and not Stalinism. I think that in today's Russia does not understand the magnitude and importance of Constructivism. Constructivism has set standards of avant-garde architecture of the 20th century. He had a huge impact on the west. German Bauhaus was heavily influenced by Constructivism. It is interesting that the Nazis embraced Bauhas even though he was under enormous Russian ie. Communist influence.
After all, people in the West do not know what the impact of the Russian avant-garde (Constructivism, Suprematism, etc.) on their life from music to advertising. They would be surprised if they knew what was all that was initiated in Russia(Soviet Union).
Stalinism is the neoclassicism which elements od communist ideology. Yes, even has a reaction.

One of the first Constructivist objects in Moscow, Shukhov radio tower(built 1920-1922) 160-metre-high:



http://m.io.ua/img_aa/medium/1931/09/19310990.jpg



http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/559302.jpg

[No1]

One od the first and legendary objects in west built under Constructivist influence:

Van Nelle Factory(1925-1931)- Rotterdam, Netherland. Today UNESCO World Heritage Site.

image hosted on flickr


http://www.flickriver.com/photos/leoroubos/3386346466/



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...102006_002.jpg



http://www.mimoa.eu/images/1273_l.jpg

[No1]

Zuyev Workers' Club in Moscow(1928)



http://www.housing.com/sites/default...s_club_008.jpg

Rusakov Workers' Club(1927-28), Moscow



http://www.scva.ac.uk/collections/im...ect/111_lg.jpg

Melnikov House, Moscow(1929)



http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/im...ikovHouse1.jpg

I do not understand why Russia do not maintain these facilities better. Constructivism originated in Russia, and completely changed the world of architecture.

[No1]

Centrosoyuz Building, Moscow(1933)



http://www.mimoa.eu/images/23167_l.jpg



http://kubasnopek.com/wp-content/gal...z/pa311773.jpg

image hosted on flickr


http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4120/4...a7b2de01_z.jpg

And interior



http://arttattler.com/images/Archite...entrosoyuz.gif

[No1]

Gosplan garage (1936) by Konstantin Melnikov



http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--SMOZ5Vqn_...er+unknown.jpg




http://www.melnikovhouse.org/img/pag...9_lg.74372.jpg

[No1]

Narkomzem (1928-1933) by Aleksey Shchusev

image hosted on flickr


http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2627/3...ffb_z.jpg?zz=1

image hosted on flickr


http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6214/6...ca162b8e_z.jpg



http://www.housing.com/sites/default...usev_001_0.jpg