The 1937 Paris World's Fair demonstrated that changes had taken place in architecture: the Palais de Chaillot, the German Pavilion by Albert Speer, and the Soviet Pavilion by Boris M. Iofan were the most significant representations of the New Monumentality. However, the Soviet Pavilion had a component that was diametrically opposed to historicist architecture. Visitors entering this pavilion at the World's Fair arrived at a monumental lobby at the end of which was a large model of the Soviet Palace: a true symbol of the new architecture of realism in the USSR. Along the way, visitors encountered a series of abstract decorations that could be interpreted as indicators of the route leading to the model. This interior was designed by N. Sukhtin, a disciple of Kazimir Malevich. The forms of the entire environment, and especially those chosen for the vertical elements, represented the only materialization of Malevich's architectural projects: the so-called arkitektons or degenerate forms of decoration...[+]