The musings of an architect who loves mid century glass, the Black Lips, military watches, architecture, chairs, guitars, Oulipo, Rauschenberg, and on and on.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Melnikov's house during construction
A rare view of Melnikov's 1929 house during construction. Like the fluid Potsdam tower by Mendelsohn, also in brick, construction technology had not caught up with Constructivist and Expressionist dreams.
1 Comments:
probably the perfect amount
of sunlight, as well as a
situation of the form on
an east/west axis I hope.
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