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Worker’s Club. Reconstruction
Courtesy of Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Aleksandr Rodchenko in Paris, 1925
Melnikov pavilion in Paris, 1925
he year of the triumph of Vkhutemas students students and teachers at the exposition of applied and decorative arts in Paris. The Soviet pavilion designed by Melnikov, a teacher in the architecture department, earned the respect of Le Corbusier, who called it the only building in the entire show worth looking at. Aleksandr Rodchenko and his students also designed and built a model workers’ club for the show.
Mural workshop, Bauhaus Dessau, 1926
© Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Archiv der Moderne
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Axonometric drawing of the Residential buildings at Törten by Walter Gropius and Building department of Bauhaus, 1927
Masters' House Kandinsky-Klee from North-West, architect Walter Gropius, 1926
Photo by Lucia Moholy © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Törten Housing Estate
or Dessau, Gropius designed three structures in total: the school itself, a residence for faculty, and a workers’ village, Toerten. The latter was considered by Dessau authorities as a model for further planned development in the city. Gropius’ “languages” for the three are quite different: ascetic-grand for the school, imposing and strictly ordered for the residence, and almost crudely simple for Dessau-Toerten.
