• Ne Davimo Beograd NE DAVIMO BEOGRAD / BELGRADE ON WATER A huge development project funded by Arab Emirates capitals aims at transforming Belgrade’s face. It has been imposed as a project of national interest without any democratic process, erasing existing masterplan and laws. The activists of the campaign Ne Da(vi)mo Beograd organise the resistance against the silence of […] wp_7313554 No responses 2016-06-02
  • Burning Moscow – El Lissitzky printing plant An interview with Elena Olshanskaya (chairman of Zhurgaz condominium management) jo pixel No responses 2011-02-08
  • Moskonansledie The main goal of our third and conclusive visit to Moscow was to meet and interview some representatives of Moscow Government, and namely Moscomansledie, the municipal agency in charge of preserving cultural heritage in the Russian Capital. It is the only relevant actor in the story of the Narkomfin, which we did not have the […] jo pixel No responses 2010-08-02
  • NY_interview with Yekaterina Milyutin jo pixel No responses 2010-07-03
  • 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
  • Constructivism Constructivism is one of the most exciting, important, productive, inventive avant-garde movements of the first half of the 20th century. It developed in many cities of the Soviet Union and not only in Moscow. Developments took place in Leningrad, in Ukraina, even in the Caucasus, and were connected to a series of contemporary movements. The […] jo pixel No responses 2009-12-12
  • SA n.5, 1929 The building commissioned by Nikolai Milyutin, who was the people’s commissar for finance of the Russian federation, to Moisei Ginzburg and Ignati Milinis is an exceptional building, it is a prototype of a new kind of architecture , an architecture in which daily life, in which residential life would be re-articulated on a collective base. […] jo pixel No responses 2009-05-18
  • The old poet There is an old man who lives nearby the Narkomfin, notably in the stalinian building build in the place of the 5th element of the narkomfin project; every time he sees someone hanging around and taking pictures, he comes out and start to tell stories about both buildings, and the  competition among them to be […] jo pixel No responses 2009-05-14