EL LISSITZKY

FLYING TO EARTH FROM AFAR in: A SUPREMATIST TALE ABOUT TWO SQUARES IN SIX CONSTRUCTIONS, 1922

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OSKAR SCHLEMMER

TRIADIC BALLET, 1922

“[…] Schlemmer’s choreographic endeavour constitutes an appropriate model for modern dance, as a new form of performance in the wake of the nineteenth-century aspirations to a Gesamtkunstwerk. This hypothesis is in sharp contrast with common assumptions about the canons of dance modernism, usually defined by two other trends in modern dance rightly considered in the scholarly literature as major references: the Ballets Russes’ modernist ballets and the German Expressionist dance. The very concept of abstract dance might be understood as an apparent opposition in the terms; as a theoretical issue, it confronts us with more challenging questions and brings up new answers. […] The Triadic Ballet represents a place of tensions followed by resolutions, where Schlemmer successfully conducts a renegotiation of deeply-rooted tendencies: abstraction-expression; mechanised-human bodies; heterogeneity-homogeneity of an art work constituted by a dialogue of different mediums. […]” - Cecile Guedon

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HANS RICHTER

RHYTHM 21, 1921

… early abstract film. hans richter also co-edited G: Material zur elementaren Gestaltung together with ludwig mies van der rohe and werner gräff

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JOOST SCHMIDT

WOODEN RELIEFS FOR SOMMERFELD HOUSE IN BERLIN DAHLEM DESIGNED BY WALTER GROPIUS, 1920-21

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ERICH MENDELSOHN

COHEN-EPSTEIN DEPARTMENT STORE, DUISBURG 1926-27

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DR. PIERRE PÂTE DENTIFRICE

MURAL IN FRANCE (VERSAILLES?) FROM THE 1920s OVERGROWN OVER TIME

(PHOTOGRAPHED BY DEIDI VON SCHAEWEN)

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KONSTANTIN MELNIKOV

HIS OWN HOUSE IN MOSCOW, 1927

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WASSILI AND HANS LUCKHARDT, ALFONS ANKER

ROW HOUSES AT SCHORLEMERALLEE / DAHLEM IN BERLIN, 1928

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KONSTANTIN MELNIKOV

HIS OWN HOUSE IN MOSCOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION, 1927

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KONSTANTIN MELNIKOV

FLOOR PLANS OF HIS OWN HOUSE IN MOSCOW, 1927

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NORMAN BEL GEDDES

AERIAL RESTAURANT, 1929

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LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

AXONOMETRIC OF THE BRICK COUNTRY HOUSE, 1924

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LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY

FROM DYNAMIC OF THE METROPOLIS / SKETCH FOR A FILM, 1921/22

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THEO VAN DOESBURG

FLOORPLAN MAISON D'ARTISTE, 1923

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POTSDAMER PLATZ

from Artur Fürst, Das Weltreich der Technik (volume II), 1924.

“An example of the scale of supply lines that must be relaid when a rapid transit tunnel gets built underneath an important intersection.  Sewer mains,  Water mains, Gas mains, Pole-mains (telegraph cable, telephone cable, pneumatic tubes), High voltage cable for the electric works, Alarm mains for the fire department. After [Erich] Giese,Das zukünftige Schnellbahnnetz für Groß-Berlin [The Future Rapid Transit Network of Greater Berlin, 1919].”

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