Utopian?

GSD9206October 25, 2004

Spiral Threshold

Container

Catwalk

Inside the Box

Inside the Box 2

Boardwalk

It’s the Real ThingCatwalkOutside the Box

A

Gestural Genres

The Swoop: Specifi cally Soviet

The thin-shelled roof:Generically Global

A

Dynamics of Infl uence

Inward:Mosproject

Outward:International Discourse

A

Soviet Supply and Demand

Mass Housing “The demand is an indicator of the quality.”

A

“On the measures of further industrialization, improvement of quality and decrease of the expenditure on construction. On avoiding extravagances in designing and construction”

- passed by the Central Committee & The Soviet of Ministers of the USSR 1958

Modes of Practice

Singular PluralistCompetition for the Lenin Museum

A

Urban Visions

Moscow Master PlanI. Korbut 1968-70

Moscow Master PlanM.V. Posokhin, 1971

A

Housing Models

Collective IndividualityUkrainian Rural Settlement

CommunalHousing Blocks

A

Imagining Space

Monument to the Soviet Comonaut, 1967 “The Man Who Flew into Space from his Apartment”

Ilya Kabakov, 1986

Commodities and the State

Brezhnev’s Car Collection

A

Youth Culture

A

Iconography

USSR PavilionOsaka World’s Fair 1970

Roshal, “We Shall Mine Extra Coal,” 1973

Design vs Dizain

Dizain

Design

a new ideological tool-borrowing of the

English term “design” was used to des-

ignate a co-coordinating body of nor-

mative principles regarding the nature

of material culture which oversaw the

rationalization of the domestic sphere

in order to overcome petit-bourgeois

consciousness

1970 1975 1980 198519651960

2003200319961996

1971 development plan

1935 Master Plan of the city

1917 Plan of the city

1935193519171917

aerial, 1970

satellite, 2003

satellite, 1996

aerial, 1996

centre, 1971 green space, 1971

Moscow, 1979

development plan, 1971

Monuments, 1971

Olympic Planning, 1980Moscow Region, 1971

Moscow Master PlanI. Korbut, 1968-70

Cosmic City,V. Loktev, 1968

Reconstruction of Moscow SSRMAN. Ladovsky, 1932

Master Plan sketches, M.V. Posokhin 1971

centre ensembles, 1971

Moscow is like a living being, a starfish or a flower. The radial-ring layout of the city allows us to look at its form in precisely this fashion. Just like a flower, in the centre of Moscow is found the greatest density of land usage and the seeds of the future. The sealing and consolidation of the centre is unavoidable. It is more and more paramount to do so with a mind to its eventual transforma-tion into a new quantity.

Moscow is a complex of town-planning systems integrated on a poly-centric basis, and developing in harmony with the environment

Moscow Master Plans“[T]he Moscow Master Plan states

the prospects and defi nes the prin-

ciples for the regulation of the

growth and further comprehensive

development of the capital within

the lines fo the entire state eco-

nomic plan. Moscow should develop

without being allowed to sprawl. All

efforts are being concentrated on

the realization of this principle.”

—Mikhail Posokhin, “Plan for Moscow’s De-velopment as a Basis for the Formation of the City’s Architecture,” Towns for People

Progress?

Yakutiya

Irkutsk

E venkiya

K omi

C hukotka

C hita

Taymyrskiy AO

Amur

Magadan

Tomsk

K habarovsk kray

K rasnoyarsk kray

Yamalo-Nenetskiy AO

B uryatiya

Tuva

Arkhangel'sk

K hanty-Mansiyskiy AO

Omsk

K irov

P erm'

K areliya

K oryakskiy AO

T ver'

Tyumen'

Vologda

Altay kray

Murmansk

Novosibirsk

Nenetskiy AO

K amchatkaYekaterinburg

R ostov

Orenburg

S aratovVolgograd

P rimorskiy kray

B ashkortostan

K urgan

K emerovo

P skov

S akhalin

C helyabinsk

Tatarstan

K almykiya

P enza

S amara

K ostroma

Altay R epublic

Leningrad

Tula

Moscow

Novgorod

Orel

K hakass iya

Voronezh

K rasnodar kray

K ursk

S molensk

R yazan'

Dagestan

Astrakhan'

Nizhniy Novgorod

B ryansk

Udmurtiya

K aluga

Tambov

V ladimir

Ulyanovsk

S tavropolskiy kray

Yaros lavl'

Lipetsk

Ivanovo

Mariy E lB elgorod Mordoviya

P ermyakskiy AO

Yevreyskaya AO

C hechen

C huvashiya

Ust'-Orda AO

B uryat-Aga AO

K aliningrad

Adygeya

K abardino-B alkariyaNorth Osetiya

S t-P etersburg

B irth R ate in 1999

B irth R ate in 1999, number of births per 1000:

6.20 - 7

7.01 - 8

8.01 - 10

10.01 - 12

12.01 - 18US AID/R uss ia, J anuary 2002S ource: G oskomstat, 2000

Yakutiya

Irkutsk

K habarovsk kray

K rasnoyarsk kray

Yamalo-Nenetskiy AO

K hanty-Mansiyskiy AOP erm'

Tyumen'

Altay kray

Murmansk

Novosibirsk

Yekaterinburg

R ostov

Orenburg

S aratovVolgograd

P rimorskiy kray

B ashkortostan

K emerovo

C helyabinsk

Tatarstan

S amara

Leningrad

Tula

Moscow

Voronezh

K rasnodar kray

K ursk Nizhniy Novgorod

S tavropolskiy kray

Yaros lavl'

B elgorod

Moscow C ity

S t-P etersburg

R egional Investment P otential

US AID/R uss ia, November 2001

S ource: E xpert Magazine

Inves tment P otential

Very High

High

Moderate

Low

Very Low

Yakutiya

Irkutsk

E venkiya

K omi

C hukotka

C hita

Taymyrskiy AO

Amur

Magadan

Tomsk

K habarovsk kray

K rasnoyarsk kray

Yamalo-Nenetskiy AO

B uryatiya

Tuva

Arkhangel'sk

K hanty-Mansiyskiy AO

Omsk

K irov

P erm'

K areliya

K oryakskiy AO

T ver'

Tyumen'

Vologda

Altay kray

Murmansk

Novosibirsk

Nenetskiy AO

K amchatkaYekaterinburg

R ostov

Orenburg

S aratovVolgograd

P rimorskiy kray

B ashkortostan

K urgan

K emerovo

P skov

S akhalin

C helyabinsk

Tatarstan

K almykiya

P enza

S amara

K ostroma

Altay R epublic

Leningrad

Tula

Moscow

Novgorod

Orel

K hakass iya

Voronezh

K rasnodar kray

K ursk

S molensk

R yazan'

Dagestan

Astrakhan'

Nizhniy Novgorod

B ryansk

UdmurtiyaTambov

V ladimir

Ulyanovsk

S tavropolskiy kray

Yaros lavl'

Lipetsk

Ivanovo

Mariy E lB elgorod Mordoviya

P ermyakskiy AO

Yevreyskaya AO

C hechen

Ust'-Orda AO

B uryat-Aga AO

K aliningrad

Adygeya

K abardino-B alkariyaNorth Osetiya

S t-P etersburg

R uss ian P opulation

P opulation, thous ands

18 - 495

496 - 1135

1136 - 1746

1747 - 3297

3298 - 6511US AID/R uss ia, S eptember 2001S ource: G os komstat, 2000

Petroleum Deposits and Pipelines (1982) Petroleum Refi ning and Chemical Industry (1982) Coal and Major Minerals (1982)

USSR Social and Economic Indicators

Electric Power (1982) Metallurgy (1982)

Population (1982) Nationalities (1982) Land Use (1982) Time Zones Machine Building and Metal Working (1982)

Major Defense Industry Facilities (1993) Soviet Designed Nuclear Power Plants (1996) Birth Rates (1999) Regional Investment Potential (2000) Population (2000)

1964 1965 1966

1967 1968 1969

1970 1971 1972

1973 1974 1975

1976 1977 1978

1979 1980 1981

1982 1983 1984

1985 1986 1987

1988 1989 1990

1991 1992 1993

1994 1995 1996

1997 1998 1999

Utopian?