Iakov Chemijov, composition no. 75 from the book Architectural Fantasies, 1933

An impetuous incursion into the future marked Soviet architecture from its earliest years. It was inevitable if we take into account the radical social changes that were taking place in the country: the wonderful prospect of a new, evolving socialist society and the inspiration derived from the revolutionary fervor of the working masses conferred a characteristic dynamism on the architecture of the 1920s and early 1930s.

The intensity of architectural experimentation during the period of the implementation of socialist architecture in the Soviet Union is probably unparalleled in our century. Rapidly changing economic and social conditions-which, in fact, constituted a complete social transformation-forced architects to focus on the future. In fact, some of the architects who then began to put forward new ideas were so mindful of the future that their experimental projects and proposals would only achieve public recognition and be put into practice thirty to fifty years later...[+]