Methods of load research on the buildings structure in the early twentieth century

I want to write how Antoni Gaudi created models of their buildings. It should be noted that in those days there were no computers, strength calculations were not created accurately. If it was a bridge or supporting columns, the calculated cross section with squaring and multiplying almost at 3-5 times. That is why many ancient or medieval buildings so firmly stand still - the whole thing is that the designers have done a very large margin of safety (which, of course, does not negate their knowledge of architecture, shapes and materials).

Smart and Merry?

In this post I would like to express some of my thoughts concerning the newly built  Entertaining Centre in Moscow – “KVN planet” building not far from Mar’ina Roscha metro station. KVN – “The Club of the smart and the merry” is a Russian humor TV show-competition.  In the year of 2012 a building of “Havana” cinema theatre was presented to KVN   by Russian government with the aim of transforming it into a new concert platform. Afterwards a competition between Russian architectural companies took place where different architects and designers offered their own modern solutions for a new façade. 

New luxury with deep roots

The exhibition ‘Less and More: New Luxuries in an Age of Austerity’ in Manezh displays 41 objects of Dutch conceptual designers from Droog Studio. Most of these pieces are highly recognizable as they were published in almost every book about design.

Renny Ramakers, co-founder of the Droog design studio, created this project to support young designers and introduce their works to the world design community. Today objects made by Droog Studio are a part of collections in all biggest museums. And are currently shown in Moscow.

Zaryadye tomorrow

In last couple of years Moscow government radically changed its opinion about architecture: there are a lot of competitions with international jury, city live is observed and analyzed by good professionals, people speak more about urban planning etc. All of this is the result of new Moscow’s urban strategy made by new major and his team. So a few days ago we could see the completion of very important part in the development one of the most ambitious and grandiose projects in Moscow and in the world. On the 12 of November the jury declared the winners of Zaryadie park competition.

HYGIENE. RATIONALITY. ECONOMY.

It was the year of 1925. Summer in Paris. The Soviet Union took part in “the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes” and should have projected an image of itself as civilized and utterly progressive government. Some exhibits included Konstantin Mel'nikov's Soviet pavilion and displays of crafts, graphic design, architectural drawings, and works created at VKHUTEMAS. But one of the most remarkable and impressive exhibits was “Workers club” created by Russian respectable artist and photographer Aleksander Rodchenko.

Design of history

An Exhibition dedicated to 400 years of Imperial Romanov Dynasty took place from the 6-19 November in Manezhny Dvor Exhibition Centre. An incredible number of people, about 30 thousand people every day, stood in the huge queues to get acquainted with the rich history of Russia from the first Tsar Michael Fyodorovich from 1594 to Nicholas II. 1919.

Unhappy introduction

“Pit Mondrian is a great painter who should not be introduced…” – this is the phrase I might use to start any other article about this famous artist. But after the visit of exhibition “Pit Mondrian the way to abstraction” in the modern building of Tretyakov gallery you would not hear this phrase from me anymore.

MEMORY REANIMATION

The exhibition of world famous Polish artist Miroslaw Balka,

FRAGMENT is held at two venues  in Moscow, in the NCCA and Winzavod Centre of Contemporary Art , as a part of the 5th Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art.

VOBLA, EPOXY FOAM and CONSTRUCTIVISM

The first thing popping-up in your mind when you see this might be the question "Is he serious?" Personally, I was embarrassed in a way the moment I entered the area with “Totan” exhibition. Works of various media by Totan Kuzembaev were displayed at the Schusev Museum of Architecture. Along with pictures of his buildings there were his newest sculptures and experimental objects. The latter causes diverse impressions and I would like to speculate more on this a bit later.