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Mashup - Yakov Chernikhov and Constructivism

Constructivist architecture is a form of modern architecture, popular in the Soviet Union between the 1920s and 1930s. Utilising emerging technologies and engineering tactics of the time combined with a Communist social purpose, the ideal was to create a utopia of an urban carnival and the magical machine.

The focus on design was the principles of kinetic, mechanical and psychological movements, to dynamism and transformation. The design was committed to the environment, the object and the human being. With these elements a relationship is formed in which the design creates a space of a “theatrical’’ machine of grand and extraordinary.

Yakov Chernikhov, an architect of this movement produced many astonishing drawings which reflected the Constructivist influence.  Chernikhov suggests "can, and must, take into consideration all the concrete needs of contemporary life and must answer in full the needs of the mass consumer, the collective `customer'--the people" (Bowls, 1988: 260-261).

He envisioned mechanistic worlds a –building and then of a metropolis of romantic pastoral concoctions already a-crumbling. The "mechanization" of architecture was supposed to go beyond making building methods more efficient and rationalizing the job of the architect. Chernikhov suggests : "We are gradually uniting artistic construction and machine construction; the boundary dividing them is being erased. A new conception of the beautiful, a new beauty, is being born--the aesthetics of industrial constructivism [which] is indebted for the concrete definition of its principles mainly to the artistic and technological research of the last decades" (Bowls, 1988: 260-261).

Guillén, Mauro F. 1997. "Scientific Management's Lost Aesthetic: Architecture, Organization, and the Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical." Administrative Science Quarterly 42, no. 4: 682-715. Business Source Premier, EBSCOhost(accessed May 17, 2014).

Olsberg, Nicholas. 2013. "THE EVOLVING ROLE OF THE DRAWING." Architectural Review 233, no. 1395: 36-43. Art & Architecture Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed May 17, 2014).

Barris, Roann. 1999. "Russian Constructivist Architecture as an Urban Carnival: The Creation and Reception of a Utopian Narrative." Utopian Studies 10, no. 1: 42. Art & Architecture Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed May 17, 2014).