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“Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.” ⎯ Le Corbusier, Toward an Architecture (1923)
This blog intends to serve as a place where I can share my work and thoughts online. On the one hand, it will provide a convenient place for me to store an online portfolio for future reference. At the same time, I am interested in connecting and engaging with others who are interested in the subjects it covers.
Though its content will doubtless reflect my changing interests over time and my shifting course of study, its main focus will be on the history of European and Russian-Soviet society, Marxism, theory and philosophy, utopian vision, and architecture. Comments, questions, and criticisms are welcome.

Spectral Blueprints

The Flying City
“Comrades!
The twin fires of war and revolution have devastated both our souls and our cities. The palaces of yesterday’s grandeur stand as burnt-out skeletons. The ruined cities await new builders[…]
To you who accept the legacy of Russia, to you who will (I believe!) tomorrow become masters of the whole world, I address the question: with what fantastic structures will you cover the fires of yesterday?” ⎯ Vladimir Maiakovskii, “An Open Letter to the Workers” (1918)
“Utopia transforms itself into actuality. The fairy tale becomes a reality. The contours of socialism will become overgrown with iron flesh, filled with electric blood, and begin to dwell full of life. The speed of socialist building outstrips the most audacious daring. In this lies the distinctive character and essence of the epoch.” ⎯ I. Chernia, “The Cities of Socialism” (1929)
“The idea of the conquest of the substructure, the earthbound, can be extended even further and calls for the conquest of gravity as such. It demands floating structures, a physical-dynamic architecture.” ⎯ El Lissitzky, The Reconstruction of Architecture in the Soviet Union (1929)

Utopian Urbanism
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