Architecture of Life

"Examining theories advanced by El Lissitzky, Moisei Ginzburg, and Nikolay Ladovsky, this illuminating study demonstrates how Soviet architects of the interwar period sought to mitigate Fordist production methods with other, ostensibly more human-oriented approaches that drew on the biological and psychological sciences"--

Introduction. Life: An Ideology for Modernity
1. Space: Formalist Architectural Pedagogy at the VKhUTEMAS
2. Orientation: El Lissitzky’s Evolutionist Urbanism
3. Fitness: Nikolay Ladovsky’s Architectural Psychotechnics
4. Process: Organicist Aesthetics of Soviet Standardization
5. Energy: Soviet Wall-Painting and the Economy of Perception
6. Personality: Public Park as a Factory of Dealienation
Conclusion. History: From the Monistic to the Terrestrial
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index