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El Lissitzky
  • Architecture at Vkhutemas The VKhUTEMAS, or Higher State Artistic-Technical Workshop, was an important centre of experimentation and technical innovation in art education in Moscow during the 1920s. Its importance in developing experimental design and pedagogical innovations rivals that of the Bauhaus in Weimar, although the VKhUTEMAS is far less well known. Inspired by the work of artists such […] jo pixel No responses 2012-02-26
  • Threatened El Lissitsky’s printing plant We have been visiting our friends at the Zhurgaz house, to see how is going their struggle to preserve their home and the close El Lissitzky’s typography. The planned new high rise building has been built up, although in recent times the construction has been stopped. The destitution of mayor Luzkhov left in disgrace his […] jo pixel No responses 2011-12-20
  • Burning Moscow – El Lissitzky printing plant An interview with Elena Olshanskaya (chairman of Zhurgaz condominium management) jo pixel No responses 2011-02-08
  • El Lissitzky’s Autograph On the Map of Moscow We receive and publish from Elena Olshanskaya translated by  Michael Subotin “We live in cities born before us. They no longer suffice for the tempo and needs of our day. We cannot raze them overnight and rebuild them “correctly”. It is impossible to change their structure and type all at once. Moscow, with its plan, […] jo pixel No responses 2011-01-28
  • Architectural review n.1357 jo pixel No responses 2010-05-11
  • El Lissitzky printing plant and Zhurgaz house MONEY AND POWER AGAINST ARCHITECTURE El Lissitzky printing plant and Zhurgaz house are under threat of destruction. Your help in protecting these landmarks is urgently needed! In 2007 staff members of the Russian Avant-Garde Fund discovered in a Moscow archive previously unknown blueprints for the printing plant of JSC Ogonek authored by El Lissitzky, a […] jo pixel No responses 2010-01-19
  • A letter from Moscow Our friend Elena wrote us to inform about some sad developments of their campaign against speculation in Moscow. She is part of a committee of citizens struggling to defend their building, an interesting example of civil architecture of the constructivist period, from damages and abuses deriving from new development projects. Recently they discovered that the […] jo pixel No responses 2010-01-11