SOVIET CONSTRUCTIVISM AND THE STRATEGIES OF ITS PHILOSOPHICAL RECEPTION

A. Bolshakova
2022 Zenodo  
Constructivism changed the face of many Soviet cities and was reflected in history as one of the most important stages in the development of modern architecture. Soviet constructivism can be viewed as a kind of living space, a "living world", created in the conditions of modernity (modernist paradigm), this is a special method - a method of design, construction, a method of reducing pluralism and chaos to conciseness and integrity, a method of life. Theoretical and practical artistic diversity,
more » ... the flourishing of architecture - the trace left in the history of world art by Russian constructivists, the imprint that can be seen in a new way through the prism of philosophical ideas. The article attempts to consider the course of constructivism in architecture and fine arts as a representation (embodiment) of human consciousness in a supernatural dimension, describes the ideas and works of such innovative architects as Moses Ginzburg, Konstantin Melnikov, brothers Alexander, Leonid and Victor Vesnin, Alexander Nikolsky, Ilya Golosov and others; artists Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko. The problem of finding the stability of being through architectural structures is seen as relevant and important for each person to understand his eternally elusive, constantly fragmenting Self. Man, being a clash of external heterogeneity and internal heterogeneity, faces dissolution, "spreading" of the foundations of his own being, is forced to determine (make attempts to realize) what in general can play the role of the so-called existential basis, and whether anything can. It seems possible for us to consider constructivism as a way to approach, through uneven, multi-level architectural forms, the realization of the illusory nature of the integrity of one's Self and the construction of the structural hierarchy of mind.
doi:10.5281/zenodo.7106975 fatcat:be52ooumsbc4zjhuyzs5wczssa