Models of Soviet Avant-garde Architecture

by fosco lucarelli

architecture, past futures, politics, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions

Thanks to Ross Wolfe, we can feature here these models of Soviet Constructivist architectures (built or non-built), recently made by Australian students of the University Of Western Australia, Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts(ALVA).

(Descriptions, when present, by Ross Wolfe)





A visual recreation of one of Yakov Chernikov’s brilliant abstractions from 101 Architectural Fantasies (1925-1933)





Model of El Lissitzky’s “cloudprop” proposal (1925)






























Model of Konstantin Melnikov’s famous house. 











Model of a section from Konstantin Melnikov’s legendary 1925 Soviet pavilion building at the Paris World Fair

















Model of  Ivan Leonidov’s renowned proposal for the Lenin Institute (1927)


















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