Photo Exposition of Soviet Union Architecture

This photo exposition features architecture and the art of the avant-garde Soviet Union between  1920 and 1930 in a major exhibition at Caixa Forum located in Paseo del Prado, 36, Madrid.The exposition aptly named Build the revolution. Art and architecture in Russia, 1915-1935 addresses one of the most outstanding periods in the history of architecture, ranging from the years before the October Revolution to the founding of the USSR. The artists and architects came together under the Bolshevik cause to create, through art and architecture, a new society based on socialist ideas.

Russian architects of the communist movement

It was a period highlighted by the radical proposals of architects like Konstantin Melnikov and Moisei Ginsburg, and visual artists of the Constructivist movement, like Liubov Popova, Vladimir Tatlin, Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky and Gustav Klucis. The photographic exhibition consists of about 250 works.These are  archived photographs of buildings constructed between 1920 and 1930 from the State Museum of Architecture in Moscow Schusev to drawings, paintings and models of the Costakis Collection of the State Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki and a selection colour photographs in large format.The images were compiled by British photographer Richard Pare  ​​between 1992 and 2010 to document the first 15-year history of the Soviet Union. This exposition ends on the 18 of  September 2011.