Melnikov House
Photo by Igor Palmin
o commemorate the school’s 10th anniversary a major Bauhaus exhibition was staged in Zurich. The design projects included furnishings for an average apartment and furniture for defined groups of consumers. The designers, aiming to lower costs, avoided unnecessary details. The designs included folding tables and chairs, as well as a cupboard for a bachelor apartment.
ne of the best known of Vkhutemas’ teacher-architects, Konstantin Melnikov, designed and built his own home and studio on a lot in central Moscow. Its two intersecting cylinders sum up Melnikov’s utopian vision of communal housing and his personal ideal of the home as castle. The structure is also a fantastic testament to efficiency and economy in use of materials in the impoverished conditions of the late 1920s.
