[in-enaction] exhibit: Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922–32

Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922–32
Photographs by Richard Pare
July 18–October 29, 2007


The Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries, third floor

Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922–­32 examines Soviet 
avant-garde architecture in the postrevolutionary period. Although they 
are integral to the history of modern architecture, the featured 
projects have seldom been published and remain largely unknown. Examples 
of this avant-garde architecture abound, not just in Moscow and St. 
Petersburg but throughout the former U.S.S.R., in cities such as Kiev, 
Baku, Ivanovo, and Sochi. The exhibition highlights some eighty 
photographs by architectural photographer Richard Pare, who made eight 
extensive trips between 1992 and 2002, and created nearly ten thousand 
images to compile a timely documentation of these structures, many of 
which are now in various states of decay, transformation, and peril. 
Pare's images are supplemented by Soviet periodicals to provide 
historical context for an exploration of this extraordinary architecture.

ref: http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=5138