Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This second episode provides a criticism of one of the competing architectural trends in the early Soviet Union, the "rationalists/formalists" of ASNOVA.
Playlist with all episodes in this series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vTTYxx76kBZcN8ZLNCNdEZl
Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2024/04/14/history-of-soviet-architecture-and-city-planning-part-2-critique-of-rationalism-1920-30s
My video on Deborin
youtube.com/watch?v=9FikbW79Y-M&
SOURCES:
Andreĭ Vladimirovich Ikonnikov, Russian architecture of the Soviet period
K. Mikhailov, "VOPRA—ASNOVA—SASS", 1931
tehne.com/event/arhivsyachina/k-mihaylov-vopra-asnova-sass-1931
Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec
Lenin, The Tasks of the Youth Leagues
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/oct/02.htm
Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Contribution_to_the_Critique_of_Political_Economy.pdf
Hugh D. Hudson, Blueprints and blood: the Stalinization of Soviet architecture, 1917-1937
Ladovsky, “The basis for constructing a theory of architecture”, Izvestia ASNOVA, 1926.
A. I. Mikhailov, “Formalism in Soviet architecture”, 1932
tehne.com/event/arhivsyachina/i-mihaylov-formalizm-v-sovetskoy-arhitekture-1932
Mikhail Tsapenko, On the realistic foundations of Soviet architecture
archive.org/details/tsapenko_mp_o_realisticheskikh_osnovakh_sovetskoi_arkhitektu
“Series of skyscrapers for Moscow” by El Lissitzky, “Izvestia ASNOVA”, 1926.
V. Khazanova, "Soviet Architectural Associations 1917-1932" in Building in the USSR, 1917-1932, ed. O. A. Shvidkovsky
A. Bazdyrev, "History of Soviet Architecture: From Palaces to Boxes
revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv21n1/architecture.htm
Hudson and Khazanova are anti-communist bourgeois writers, Ikonnikov is a Soviet revisionist writer. All the other sources are recommended reading, though the VOPRA position is also not entirely correct and will be explained in a later episode. Tsapenko and Bazdyrev are particularly good sources.
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This second episode provides a criticism of one of the competing architectural trends in the early Soviet Union, the "rationalists/formalists" of ASNOVA.
Playlist with all episodes in this series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vTTYxx76kBZcN8ZLNCNdEZl
Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2024/04/14/history-of-soviet-architecture-and-city-planning-part-2-critique-of-rationalism-1920-30s
My video on Deborin
youtube.com/watch?v=9FikbW79Y-M&
SOURCES:
Andreĭ Vladimirovich Ikonnikov, Russian architecture of the Soviet period
K. Mikhailov, "VOPRA—ASNOVA—SASS", 1931
tehne.com/event/arhivsyachina/k-mihaylov-vopra-asnova-sass-1931
Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec
Lenin, The Tasks of the Youth Leagues
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/oct/02.htm
Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Contribution_to_the_Critique_of_Political_Economy.pdf
Hugh D. Hudson, Blueprints and blood: the Stalinization of Soviet architecture, 1917-1937
Ladovsky, “The basis for constructing a theory of architecture”, Izvestia ASNOVA, 1926.
A. I. Mikhailov, “Formalism in Soviet architecture”, 1932
tehne.com/event/arhivsyachina/i-mihaylov-formalizm-v-sovetskoy-arhitekture-1932
Mikhail Tsapenko, On the realistic foundations of Soviet architecture
archive.org/details/tsapenko_mp_o_realisticheskikh_osnovakh_sovetskoi_arkhitektu
“Series of skyscrapers for Moscow” by El Lissitzky, “Izvestia ASNOVA”, 1926.
V. Khazanova, "Soviet Architectural Associations 1917-1932" in Building in the USSR, 1917-1932, ed. O. A. Shvidkovsky
A. Bazdyrev, "History of Soviet Architecture: From Palaces to Boxes
revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv21n1/architecture.htm
Hudson and Khazanova are anti-communist bourgeois writers, Ikonnikov is a Soviet revisionist writer. All the other sources are recommended reading, though the VOPRA position is also not entirely correct and will be explained in a later episode. Tsapenko and Bazdyrev are particularly good sources.
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