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Constructivist Architecture
Also Known As Soviet Constructivism
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The architectural wing of the Russian and Soviet avant-garde that flourished through the 1920s, seeking a wholly new, non-historical language of building suited to the new socialist society: dynamic diagonal and cantilevered forms, exposed structural frames, and buildings conceived as social machines, workers' clubs, communal housing, radio towers, rather than monuments. Vladimir Tatlin's unbuilt Monument to the Third International and Konstantin Melnikov's Moscow buildings are its most celebrated statements; official Soviet taste turned against it for a return to classicism by the mid-1930s.
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PeriodThe Palace of the Soviets competition result of 1932 signaled the official turn back to classicism. Origin Region Cross-Tradition Connections
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Deconstructivism takes both its name and some of its fractured, diagonal formal language from Russian Constructivism, filtered through late-twentieth-century critical theory.
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