Why Constructivist Architecture is Disturbing (and Cool)

Описание: During the 1920s and early 1930s, a group of avant-garde architects in Russia formed the Constructivist movement to design buildings for the new socialist regime. They believed architecture should begin with construction, emphasizing abstract geometric shapes and functional machine parts.

Constructivist architecture merged engineering and technology with political ideology, aiming to reflect humanity's collectivism through the arrangement of structural elements. Key features included a sense of movement, abstract shapes, and machine-made components primarily of glass and steel.

One of the most famous unbuilt designs was Tatlin's Tower, proposed by Vladimir Tatlin in 1920 as a monument for the Third International in St. Petersburg. The 400-meter (about 1,300 feet) tower featured spirals symbolizing revolution, with three rotating glass-walled units-a cube, a pyramid, and a cylinder.

Although Tatlin's Tower was never constructed, it helped launch the Constructivist movement. By the late 1920s, the movement spread to Europe, attracting various architects like Konstantin Melnikov and El Lissitzky. However, it eventually lost popularity to the Bauhaus movement in Germany.