Main entry:

Bokov, Anna, author.

Title & Author:

Avant-garde as method : Vkhutemas and the pedagogy of space, 1920-1930 / Anna Bokov.

Publication:

Zurich : Park Books, [2020]

Description:

624 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The school: institutionalizing the avant-garde. Incubator for the new "we": constructing the future ; Institutional history: revolution in education ; Organizational structure: pluralist condenser ; Educational networks: consolidating core knowledge -- Laboratory: architecture a science. Objective method: :foundations of the theory of architecture" ; Anticipating rationalism: from matter to form ; Spatial psychotechnics: "measuring architecture with architecture: ; Formulas for space: from composition to combination -- Pedagogy: teaching as experiment. Prolegomena to propaedeutics: "stepping into the unknown" ; Rationalizing space: "kitchen of architecture" ; Modeling space: "the material of architecture" ; Constructing initiative: the laboratory course -- Praxis: inventing a universal future. Pedagogy in practice: from the chair to the city ; Universal aggregates: "the armature of everyday life" ; Great structures: assembly for the masses ; Dynamic projections: envisioning the new city.
Text in facsimile reprints in Russian.

Summary:

"Throughout the 1920s and '30s, the Higher Art and Technical Studios in Moscow, more commonly known as Vkhutemas, adopted what it called the "objective method" to facilitate instruction on a mass scale. The school was the first to implement mass art and technology education, which was seen as essential to the Soviet Union's dominant modernist paradigm. With Avant-Garde as Method, architect and historian Anna Bokov explores the nature of art and technology education in the Soviet Union. The pedagogical program at Vkhutemas, she shows, combined longstanding academic ideas and practices with more nascent industrial era ones to initiate a new type of pedagogy that took an explorative approach and drew its strength from continuous feedback and exchange between students and educators. Elaborating on the ways the Vkhutemas curriculum challenged established canons of academic tradition by replacing it with open-ended inquiry, Bokov then shows how this came to be articulated in architectural and urban projects within the school's advanced studios."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9783038601340 (hardcover)
3038601349 (hardcover)

Subject:

VKhUTEMAS (Art school) History.
VKhUTEMAS (Art school)
Constructivism (Architecture) Russia (Federation) History 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Russia (Federation) History 20th century.
Space (Architecture)
Architecture 20e siècle.
Espace (Architecture)
Constructivisme (Architecture) Russie Histoire 20e siècle.
Structural design
Constructivism (Architecture)
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture Composition, proportion, etc.
Architectural design
Architecture, Modern
Architecture, Russian
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Soviet Union

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 310318
Call No.: 255378
Copy: 1
Status: External loan