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13.04.2013

Famous Architects Petition to Save the Melnikov House

Melnikov House, petition
10.04.2013

Architectural Masterpiece in Moscow Under Grave Threat, Preservationists Say

Melnikov House, Natalia Melikova
23.03.2013

Muscovites petition to save architectural monument

The house of architect Konstantin Melnikov in the centre of Moscow could be damaged because of building the multi-purpose center and parking opposite the monument. International organizations addressed Russian authorities with a request to halt the construction.
Melnikov House, petition
11.03.2013

The Fight for the Melnikov House

Designed by the Russian avant-garde architect Konstantin Melnikov and completed in 1929, the well-known and highly praised Melnikov House currently finds itself in imminent danger.
Melnikov House, Natalia Melikova
01.01.2012

Threatened El Lissitsky's printing plant

El Lissitzky, Ogonyok Printing Plant
04.11.2011

The constructivists and the Russian revolution in art and achitecture

The 'Russian avant garde' created the 20th-century's most intensive art and architectural movement. Its paintings survive, but its buildings rot
12.07.2011

El Lissitzky's Everyday Avant-Garde

El Lissitzky
01.03.2010

Outrage: Campaigners out 'cultural vandalism' in Moscow

El Lissitzky, Ogonyok Printing Plant
19.01.2010

El Lissitzky printing plant and Zhurgaz house

MONEY AND POWER AGAINST ARCHITECTURE
El Lissitzky, Ogonyok Printing Plant
18.09.2009

Lissitzky+ Project

El Lissitzky
23.02.2008

Another Russian revolution: the oligarch with a sense of history

Moscow is home to some of the finest examples of the avant-garde architectural movement, but most are in ruins. Now a young billionaire has come to the rescue. Shaun Walker reports
Narkomfin, Melnikov House
20.07.2007

The Silent Radicals

In terms of pure creative energy, few periods of the 20th century can match the architectural ferment that began with the dizzying upheavals of Russia’s 1917 revolution and ended in 1932, crushed under Stalin’s heel.
19.07.2007

The Best-Laid Plans

17.08.2006

In Moscow, a Battle for a Modernist Landmark

Melnikov House
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