Architecture, revolution and temporality: the Soviet avant-garde and the politics of modernism

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Demirok, Görkem

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This study aims to present a political re-reading of modernism and the Soviet Avant-garde through their conceptualizations of temporality. To that end, affirmative and negative characteristics of modernism and the avant-garde in their relation to modernity and the capitalist mode of production are examined, and their over-identification with capitalism is questioned. Thereafter, the Soviet context of modernism and the avant-garde are analyzed through the temporal conception of Bolshevism. The study claims that both the appeal of the post-revolutionary Soviet context to modernist and avant-garde visions and their liquidation originate from the insights into temporality. It aims to reveal that the constructivist theory of architectural space presents an intensified variant of modernist spatio-temporality, a dependence on the unknown, processes and mobility, and pre-assumptions of the continuous future breaks from the past.

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Architecture, Modern, Architecture, Modern, Architecture, Modern, Avant-garde (Aesthetics)., Modernism (Art).

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/26482

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G. Demirok, “Architecture, revolution and temporality: the Soviet avant-garde and the politics of modernism,” M.Arch. - Master of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, 2017.