"Soviet architectural avant-garde: utopias, theories and practice" Exhibition

Soviet architectural avant-garde: utopias, theories and practice
Exhibition of reconstructed projects
Models by MSc1/MSc2 students, Autumn 2023
Curated by Pavel Kuznetsov

Accademia di architettura USI
Palazzo Canavée, foyer

The exhibition of 34 examination models, the outcome of the theoretical course of the eponymous name, gives a broad picture of architectural experiments of the 1920s and early 1930s in the Soviet Union. It tells both about realized projects and those that have forever remained "paper architecture": from actually built commune houses and water towers to the colonization of space, from the propaedeutic course for architecture students at VKhUTEMAS to the visionary projects of Leonidov, Tatlin, El Lissitzky and others.

By focusing on the history of architectural thought, the course and the exhibition seek to go beyond the popular cliches and labeling of the Soviet avant-garde as Moscow-centred constructivism and to show the diversity and richness of concepts and movements within it, as well as its close links and exchange of ideas with contemporaries in Europe.

Exhibition 27 January - 26 February 2024
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 9-18
Free entry