Avant-Garde Architecture Tour. Key Names and Monuments
Russian Avant-garde is well-known and admired all over the world. During this tour, you will learn about the origins of this style, its most prominent names, and the ideas that still serve as a source of inspiration for the modern architects. You will visit a few exceptional Avant-garde buildings that will tell you a story of the early Soviet utopian projects.
You will see:
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Melnikov House (1929), a private house turned into an ultimate Avant-garde manifesto.
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Narkomfin Building (1930), a commune house with the two-level “living cellsˮ.
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Rusakov Workers' Club (1929) with transformable inner spaces.
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Tsentrosoyuz Building (1935), the biggest pre-war building of Le Corbusier.
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Other examples of Avant-garde architecture.
Languages available: English, Russian.
Duration: 3 hours.
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