ASNOWA

Asnova ( Russian АСНОВА ), the association of new architects , a Russian avant-garde - architects group in the Soviet Union , which the rationalism be assigned.

The group was founded by Nikolai Ladowski after preparation in 1921 together with Vladimir Krinsky and Alexei Ruchljadew in 1923 and officially registered. Ladowski immediately took over the chairmanship from the founding chairman Artur Loleit . The founding members included Ladowski, Krinski, Loleit and Ruchljadew as the core of the El Lissitzky group , Nikolai Dokuchayev , Andrei Bunin , Viktor Balichin , Alexander Rodchenko and Boris Koroljow .

Ogonyok building in Moscow (design by El Lissitzky)

Ladowski's stance was modernist , but more intuitive than functional and based in part on gestalt psychology . The group was particularly influenced by the work of Hugo Münsterberg , and Ladowski set up a psychotechnical laboratory in 1926 on the basis of Münsterberg's industrial psychology theory. The group was accused of formalism on the part of the new OSA ( Organization of Contemporary Architects ) of the Constructivists . Konstantin Melnikow joined the group, emphasizing affect and intuition in contrast to the accuracy of the OSA, although he and Ilya Golossov sought a position between ASNOWA and OSA. Another member was Berthold Lubetkin . Georgi Krutikov's ASNOWA project Flying City in 1928 became famous for its utopianism . The group members created many projects, but little was built. Melnikow won 1st prize and Ladowski 2nd prize in the competition for the Soviet pavilion at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels moderne 1925 in Paris .

The ASNOWA group split in 1928 when Ladowski founded his own group, the Association of Architects and Urbanists ( ARU ) , which mainly focused on urban planning . Mikhail Korschew took over the chairmanship of ASNOWA . Nevertheless, the previous ASNOWA members also took part in the competition for the Palace of the Soviets . The members also included the landscape architect Militsa Ivanovna Prokhorova , who carried out several green space projects with Korschew . In 1932 ASNOWA was dissolved like all other artists' associations.

Members

Founding members Nikolai Ladowski (1881–1941), architect and leader of ASNOWA Nikolai Dukuchayev (1891–1944), architect Vladimir Krinsky (1890–1971), architect Alexei Ruchlyadev (1882–1946), architect Alexander Efimov (1889–1962), architect Vladimir Fidman (1884–1949), architect Sergei Motschalow (Smolenski) (around 1900 – around 1950), architect Wiktor Balichin (1893–1953), architect Artur Loleit (1868–1933), engineer W. Kusmin (life data unknown), engineer

Other members Iwan Bolbaschewski (1897–1975), architect Georgi Borissowski (1907 – unknown), architect Pyotr Budo (1903–1942), architect Andrei Bunin (1905–1977), architect Nadeschta Bykowa (1908 – unknown), architect Semjon Gelfeld (1898–1976), architect Mikhail Korschew (1897 – unknown), architect Maria Kruglowa (1902 – unknown), architect Georgi Krutikow (1899–1958), architect Vitaly Lavrov (1902 – unknown), architect Ivan Lamzow (1899 – unknown), architect El Lissitzky (1890–1941), artist and architect Konstantin Melnikow (1890–1974), architect Viktor Petrov (1897–1972), architect Valentin Popov (1905–1975), architect Militsa Prokhorova (1907–1959), architect Lyubov Zalesskaya (1906 – unknown), architect Alexander Siltschenkow (1889–1975), architect Juri Spasski (1901–1952), architect Nikolai Trawin (1898–1975), architect Michail Turkus (1896 – unknown), architect Trifon Warenzow (1903-1948), architect Ivan Volodko (1895 – unknown), architect and other

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ С. О. Хан-Магомедов: Николай Ладовский . Архитектура-С, Moscow 2007, ISBN 978-5-9647013-2-3 .
3. ↑ Вигдария Хазанова: Советская архитектура первых лет Октября. 1917–1925 гг. Наука, Moscow 1970.
4. ^ Catherine Cook: Russian Avant-Garde - Theories of Architecture, Urbanism and the City . Academy Editions, London 1995, ISBN 1-85490-390-X , pp. 30, 88 .
5. ^ Mauro F. Guillen: Scientific management's lost aesthetic: architecture, organization, and the taylorized beauty of the mechanical . In: Administrative Quarterly . 1997.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Stephen Bann: The Tradition of Constructivism . Da Capo Press, New York 1990, ISBN 0-306-80396-8 , pp. 138, 140 .
7. ↑ Harry Francis Mallgrave: Modern Architectural Theory: a historical survey, 1673-1968 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York 2005, ISBN 0-521-79306-8 .
8. ↑ ^{a b} Selim O. Chan-Magamedow: Pioneers of Soviet architecture . VEB Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1983, p. 590 ff .