axonometrics + modeling unknown Riverside Scene of Pure Brightness Song Dynasty - circa 1000 AD William Farish Optimal grinding engine model 1822 Kazimir Malevich Supremus no.56 1916 Gustav Klucis Dynamic City 1919 El Lissitzky Proun 1A, Bridge 1 1919 El Lissitzky Proun 1C 1919 El Lissitzky Proun 1923 El Lissitzky Proun Room 1923 El Lissitzky Design for the Lenin Tribune 1920 “We are striving in our architecture as in our whole life to create social order.... Our times demand shapes which arise out of elementary forms (geometry).” - El Lissitzky Gustav Klucis Propaganda Kiosk 1922 Gustav Klucis Design for Screen 1922 Alexandr Rodchenko Constructions, 1919 Hanging Spatial Construction II, 1921 Kiosk, 1920 Three Principles of Constructivism: [1] tectonics [tektonika] [2] facture [faktura] [3] construction [konstruksiia] Naum Gabo Column 1947 Vladimir Tatlin Corner Reliefs 1915 Vladimir Tatlin Monument to the Third International 1920 Dada-Constructivist Congress Weimar, Germany 1922 László Moholy-Nagy KVII 1922 László Moholy-Nagy A19 1927 The remedy lies in the enhancement of our spiritual education by a sensory education, a nurturing of the senses, by the readiness to articulate senses through the media of artistic expression. -László Moholy-Nagy, Vision and Motion László Moholy-Nagy Human Mechanics 1920s Theo van Doesburg Contra-Construction 1923 Eileen Gray Side Table 1922 Gerrit Rietveld Buffet and Red Blue Chair 1919 and 1923 Gerrit Rietveld Rietveld Schroder House 1924 Mies van der Rohe Brick Country House 1924 Theo van Doesburg Color Construction 1924 Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Pavilion 1929