Re:centering Periphery|Ogino Knauss

DOM NOVOGO BYTA / TRAILER from OGINO KNAUSS on Vimeo.
ДОМ НОВОГО БЫТА DOM NOVOGO BYTA A FILM BY OGINO KNAUSS
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DIRECTED BY MANUELA CONTI AND LORENZO TRIPODI SCRIPT LORENZO TRIPODI CINEMATOGRAPHY MANUELA CONTI SOUND DESIGN AND RECORDING FRANCESCA MIZZONI EDITING MANUELA CONTI SOUNDTRACK COMPOSED BY INFRASON NARRATED BY LORENZO TRIPODI WITH ROMAN SINICIN SOUND MIXING / [...]

We have been visiting our friends at the Zhurgaz house, to see how is going their struggle to preserve their home and the close El Lissitzky’s typography. The planned new high rise building has been built up, although in recent times the construction has been stopped. The destitution of mayor Luzkhov left in disgrace his [...]

News about demolitions costantly come from Moscow, were the efforts of citizens and organizations as Arhnadzor, can’t stop the pressure of real estate market oligarchy, of which the main esponent is the wife of the mayor itself. No surprise that in this situation, organs due to preserve architectural heritage, as the Moscow heritage committee (Moskonansledie) [...]

MONEY AND POWER AGAINST ARCHITECTURE
El Lissitzky printing plant and Zhurgaz house are under threat of destruction
Your help in protecting these landmarks is urgently needed!

In 2007 staff members of the Russian Avant-Garde Fund discovered in a Moscow archive previously unknown blueprints for the printing plant of JSC Ogonek authored by El Lissitzky, a luminary [...]