Left: Veshch, n° 1-2, 1922, cover of Lissitzky. Right: Stroitel'stvo Moskvy, no. 11, 1928, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, project for the Centrosoyuz in Moscow

The deployment of architectural magazines published in Russia in the period between the revolution and World War II represents an essential factor in the constitution of architectural movements and their daily activity. An indispensable platform for the creation of professional organizations, a place for the expression of institutional power and, at the same time, a space for theoretical debate, the magazine is the driving force behind the chronicles that reveal each group's own perception of the world, as well as a privileged instrument in the conquest of a new public for architecture. Designed by Alexei Gan, Alexandr Rodchenko or El Lissitzky, the magazines are also an aesthetic object particularly used as an attempt at visual formulation and implementation of the ideals of the 'art of production' and Constructivism...[+]