Houses that Become One with the Street: Ivan Leonidov’s Workers' Clubs

• In Event: Modernism in Soviet Architecture of the 1920s-1930s: Experiments and Myth-Making

Abstract

The paper examines Ivan Leonidov’s unrealized projects of the 1920s and early 1930s meant to take up arms against the concept of a house as isolated from the social processes taking place beyond its walls. It analyzes this undertaking as an attempt to design a physical space open to the spontaneous and self-governed life of the undivided utopian collective.

Author

• Djamilia Nazyrova, U of Pennsylvania