The motherland of constructivist architecture, Moscow is home to many of the world’s best examples of the former hallmark Soviet style. However, many constructivist buildings such as the Narkomfin and ...

Architectural education has always been fundamentally influenced by whichever styles are popular at a given time, but that relationship flows in the opposite direction as well. All styles must ...

The constructivists of the 1920s and 30s combined modern engineering methods and technology with communist ideology. The World Cup city of Yekaterinburg has retained this legacy – the largest ...

Dezeen is giving five readers the opportunity to win a copy of a map detailing constructivist architecture in Moscow. Congratulations to the winners! Jeff Level from the USA, Daniel Caud from France, ...

Some remarkable buildings were built in the early years of the Soviet Union, guided by dreams of a socialist utopia. These structures were inspired by cubism and other modern art movements, and they ...

“Re-Constructivist Architecture,” an exhibition now on show at the Ierimonti Gallery in New York, features the work of thirteen emerging architecture firms alongside the work of Coop Himmelb(l)au, ...

Architectural rendering and design today is filtered through digital platforms that define contemporary production. It is rare to see an architecture that breaks out of this design template, whether ...

In the 1920s and ‘30s, rapid industrialization of areas near Russia’s Ural Mountains led to a construction boom, particularly in the city of Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg). The legacy of that expansion ...

As the fall of the Soviet empire nears its 25th anniversary, Owen Hatherley examines its diverse architecture from imposing Stalinist monsters to communal housing schemes designed to reform (or ...

An interactive map of the former Soviet Union’s Constructivist architectural heritage went online just days before the city of Moscow published a list of 4,500 apartment buildings proposed for ...