VKhUTEMAS, 1920-1930: Institutionalizing the Soviet Avant-Garde
Wednesday, Apr 23, 201411:33 PMEDT
| Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place New York, NY
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Speakers: Anna Bokov, PhD Candidate, Yale University Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Associate Professor, Yale School of Architecture. Organized by: Center for Architecture AIA CES: 1.5 LU Price: Free for AIA members and students with valid ID; $10 for non-members RSVP The Higher State Artistic and Technical Studios, also known as VKhUTEMAS, was an interdisciplinary design school active in Moscow between 1920 and 1930. An astounding number of Avant-Garde leaders taught at one of the School’s eight departments, which included Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Graphics, Textiles, Ceramics, Woodworking, and Metalworking. The understanding of Soviet Avant-Garde is not complete without the grasp of the pedagogical legacy of the VKhUTEMAS - a major intellectual and creative center of its time. This talk will focus on the foundational course, “Space,” developed by the architect Nikolay Ladovsky (1881–1941) and his colleagues at the VKhUTEMAS, starting in 1920. “Space” introduced an alternative model to traditional academic training and became the pioneering modernist architectural pedagogy. Along with three other preliminary disciplines, “Color,” “Graphics,” and “Volume", taught by such figures as Alexander Vesnin, Lyubov Popova and Alexander Rodchenko, “Space” formed the core curriculum, unifying this diverse interdisciplinary school. The core experimental pedagogies functioned as a laboratory for testing out modernist design ideas and shaping the formal vocabulary of the Avant-Garde. Center for Architecture
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