September 9, 2012
Models of Soviet Avant-garde Architecture
by fosco lucarelli
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)






