Comments on: Stalinist architecture: the New York connection http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/05/17/stalinist-architecture-the-new-york-connection/ Korea... in Blog Format Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:37:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Sperwer http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/05/17/stalinist-architecture-the-new-york-connection/#comment-35682 Sperwer Wed, 17 May 2006 11:43:19 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2864#comment-35682 I'm a fan of Speer myself. Besides the Stasi tail my companion and I picked up shortly after crossing through Checkpoint Charlie, one of the highlights of my first visit to East Berlin -- well before the Wall came down -- was getting a look at what was left of the administrative heart of the Third Reich and what was left of Speer's buildings for the Fuehrer I’m a fan of Speer myself. Besides the Stasi tail my companion and I picked up shortly after crossing through Checkpoint Charlie, one of the highlights of my first visit to East Berlin — well before the Wall came down — was getting a look at what was left of the administrative heart of the Third Reich and what was left of Speer’s buildings for the Fuehrer

]]> By: michael http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/05/17/stalinist-architecture-the-new-york-connection/#comment-35681 michael Wed, 17 May 2006 11:30:18 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2864#comment-35681 This is pre-Stalinist, but I always liked V. Tatlin's Monument to the Third International. http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Drama/visualarts/Constructivism/24thirdinternational.html This is pre-Stalinist, but I always liked V. Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International.

http://max.mmlc.northwestern.e.....ional.html

]]> By: R. Elgin http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/05/17/stalinist-architecture-the-new-york-connection/#comment-35680 R. Elgin Wed, 17 May 2006 11:23:03 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2864#comment-35680 That is a nice link Shenzhen. I'm afraid the new building complex that will replace the World Trade Center will be the new monolith in New York and obscenely expensive. Things sure ain't what they used to be like when Gershwin was around . . . That is a nice link Shenzhen.

I’m afraid the new building complex that will replace the World Trade Center will be the new monolith in New York and obscenely expensive.

Things sure ain’t what they used to be like when Gershwin was around . . .

]]> By: Shenzhen Whitey http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/05/17/stalinist-architecture-the-new-york-connection/#comment-35672 Shenzhen Whitey Wed, 17 May 2006 08:57:57 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/?p=2864#comment-35672 Interesting resemblances. I don't know what in particular about the Stalinist architecture that interests you, but if it is the monumental scale, then you might want to take a look at Etienne-Louis Boullee, a French architect from the time of the Frence revolution. His works are very neoclassical--just blown up on a scale that dwarfs the human. http://tinyurl.com/okwj7 The other is Hugh Ferriss-a New York based contemporary of the Stalinist architects. He was by far the most famous architectural renderer of his day and his studies of the then new 1916 New York Zoning laws are amazing, not just in his adept use of light and shadow. http://tinyurl.com/qumyn He delved into the monumental in his book "The Metropolis of Tomorrow" (recently reprinted) http://tinyurl.com/ou3fu and joined with Raymond Hood (Rockefeller Center architect) on a design for a bridge housing apartments that would cross the Hudson http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1661 For more humorous grand scale architecture see Bruce McCall. http://www.yorku.ca/anderson/Inauthentic_Places/mccall.htm Interesting resemblances.

I don’t know what in particular about the Stalinist architecture that interests you, but if it is the monumental scale, then you might want to take a look at Etienne-Louis Boullee, a French architect from the time of the Frence revolution. His works are very neoclassical–just blown up on a scale that dwarfs the human. http://tinyurl.com/okwj7

The other is Hugh Ferriss-a New York based contemporary of the Stalinist architects. He was by far the most famous architectural renderer of his day and his studies of the then new 1916 New York Zoning laws are amazing, not just in his adept use of light and shadow.
http://tinyurl.com/qumyn
He delved into the monumental in his book “The Metropolis of Tomorrow” (recently reprinted)
http://tinyurl.com/ou3fu
and joined with Raymond Hood (Rockefeller Center architect) on a design for a bridge housing apartments that would cross the Hudson
http://www.pushpullbar.com/for.....php?t=1661

For more humorous grand scale architecture see Bruce McCall.
http://www.yorku.ca/anderson/I.....mccall.htm

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