British Photographer’s Exhibit Shines Light on Post-Revolution Soviet Architecture
The Martin Gropius Museum in Berlin, Germany, features the black-and-white and color images of Richard Pare, British photographer, in the exhibit, “Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915–1935,” through July 9. The exhibit will then move to the Shchusev Museum of Architecture in Moscow.
The purpose of Pare’s 18-year project, and resulting exhibition, is to record the burst of creativity in modern architecture immediately following the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. Many of these buildings are near ruin or are being demolished for new construction. One of the architectural forms born from this period is constructivism, which focused on designing structures for a socialist society and to serve the workers of the Soviet Union’s rapid conversion from a peasant to an industrial society.
For more information, visit the exhibit’s Web page at http://www.museumsportal-berlin.de/en/exhibitions/exhibition-details/building-the-revolution-soviet-art-and-architecture-1915-1935.html; or the Web site of the Shchusev Museum of Architecture: http://www.muar.ru/.