ith the push to industrialize the country at fever pitch, there were shortages of specialists for industry. Institutions of higher learning were expected to produce them quickly. Vkhutemas’ hybrid structure (art/crafts) began to crack. A decree ordered the transfer of students from industrial and art departments to specifically industrial and art schools. The teachers and directors became forced to defend the notion of an architecture department as a creative discipline against the government’s repeated attempts to regard it as an engineering specialty.

Construction eventually ceased on the Finance Ministry complex. The design cast an enormous influence on Le Corbusier, whose famous Marseilles “residential unit” (1945) incorporates Moisei Ginzburg’s Type F plan.