The young London publishing house Blue Crow Media has just released a dual-language map featuring buildings of Moscow’s avant-garde era. The map will be presented at Strelka on September 14 as a part of the public talk, “Saving Constructivism: Theory and Practice”. Strelka Magazine talked to the map’s publisher Derek Lamberton, photographer Natalya Melikova and historian Nikolay Vasilyev about the details of the selection process, lesser-known buildings making it into the collection, the choice of a red-yellow colour scheme and the primary audience of the map. As it turned out, its creation process is a proper reflection of things happening to avant-garde monuments today.
See full text here:
http://strelka.com/en/magazine/2016/09/12/avangard-in-pocket
