- East-gate Marzahn is one of the last huge settlements of DDR urbanism. The dormitory city logic is perfectly complementary with the shopping mall logic imported by capitalism. The synthesis of mass housing and mass consumption reinforced by efficient transportation infrastructure pleases the new consumerist citizenship. East-Gate is one of the more than 200 commercial centres owned by ECE, […]
- The power of emptiness The area around Ostbanhof in Berlin is a clear example of how in this city the typical categories of centre / periphery, downtown / suburbia are unable to describe the reality of the urban fabric. Vacant lots, huge plattenbauten settlements, retail chains, warehouses and abandoned industrial buildings: the typical landscape that we are used to associate […]
- Take Me to the River Berlin is a city built on sand. And under the sand, water. A lot of water, which requires to be pumped away every time you need to create or consolidate foundations for a building. The ever changing landscape of the city is marked by the raveling of pink and blue pipes bringing the water towards […]
- Dom Novogo Byta / trailer Dom Novogo Byta is a new step into the investigation led by Ogino:knauss on how Twentieth century’s modernist principles shaped the everyday life of urban dwellers, and what is their heritage in a global urbanisation perspective. In 2009 we were invited to produce a video installation for the art exhibition “Moskonstruct”, part of a campaign […]
- Burning Moscow – El Lissitzky printing plant An interview with Elena Olshanskaya (chairman of Zhurgaz condominium management)
- Bad TV – Moscow
- Dom Novogo Byta_Videoinstallation Videoinstallation presented at the Moskonsctruct exhibition, Garage Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, October 2009
- RKM_SPOT RKM_SAVE URBAN HERITAGE An international campaign for the preservation of Constructivist Architecture in Moscow is lead by Moskonstruct.