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Comments and reviews
…one of the best blogs of all time…
— Michael Bauwens (founder
of P2P Foundation)
ENTSCHWINDET & VERGEHT: A wraith spreading grey banality everywhere
[The] Charnel-House
Speaking of systematic; nobody has has been providing more in-depth architecture writing than Ross Wolfe. A brilliantly generous scholar of early Soviet architecture, he has been posting up all manner of essay, research, analysis and image scans, which if you can give it time is unsurpassed. However, if ultra-left purism is not your thing then you might find his frequent arguments and intellectual hatchet jobs a little hard to digest, but it’s more than offset by the density of the academic work.
— Douglas Murphy (critic, author of
The Architecture of Failure)
Ross Wolfe asks that I publicise his frankly monumental efforts to scan and upload the annals of Constructivism onto his excellent blog: which I am happy to do. The SA archives, or Izvestia ASNOVA, are especially essential.
— Owen Hatherley (critic, author of
The New Ruins of Great Britain)
Spotted on Ross Wolfe’s invaluable, voracious, and always excellent blog are these brilliant architecture models of Soviet Constructivist architecture made by 5th year students at the University of Western Australia ALVA. Find more (a lot more) at The Charnel House, which I really can’t recommend enough.
— Samuel Medina (architectural critic
and blogger at Architizer)
The Charnel-House is a blog written and produced by University of Chicago graduate student Ross Wolfe whose research focuses in part on the history of avant-garde architecture, the environment, technology and utopianism in Russia and Central Europe. Through The Charnel-House, Wolfe provides commentary on this range of topics as well as access to a wealth of historical images including photographs, sketches, blueprints, watercolors and more. The blog is updated on a regular basis and its elegant layout makes it an appealing study break.
— Ashley (architectural critic and
blogger at University of Texas)
An epic post by Ross Wolfe on the avant-garde in the USSR, with special consideration of architecture and urbanism.
— Kosmograd (cosmonaut, futurist)
A wayward wanderer in the abyss
[G]reat blog. I love reading it for the really out-there Marxist futurism and now OWS gossip. I’m not going to say much about my politics other than that they are broadly left-liberal, which means I can bang on Marxists plenty, but that’s been done. I’d rather bang on anarchists, and some of the material I’m reading here has been a lot of help.
— DMZ3 (random commenter)
This is a such a fantastic page.
— graduate student of architecture
at a university in England
Your blog is wonderful. I love your writing and the rich texture of the information.
— architect pursuing a PhD at Tel Aviv University
researching social housing in Israel
