The sheer range of visions, encompassing everything from the cool functionalism of the early Constructivists to the radical formal experiments of Konstantin Melnikov, would suffice to mark the era as one of the most fruitful in modern architecture. What distinguished it was the passion of its conviction, however naïve, that architecture could be an agent for profound social change. That this vision was stillborn only adds to its allure: as an incomplete experiment, it potentially could be renewed by future generations.
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