How Soviet architects designed a bright PROLETARIAN future
RBTH
10 Jul 2021, 16:54 GMT+10
The mixture of brutal concrete facades with antique-style columns was nicknamed Red Dorica in the 1920s-1930s - a genuine revolutionary style. But where can you find such buildings these days?
The years in the aftermath of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution were marked by liberty: from servitude, from tsarist repressions, from the old regime. The architects of the day conjured up a vision of ideal homes, as well as entire cities, suited to the new everyday life of the proletariat. This avant-garde wave gave birth to the new fashion, referred to as the proletarian classical (or Red Dorica), which combined within it elements of a then-fashionable constructivism and classical antique architecture. The trend would later inspire Stalin s empire style .
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