Dec 02, 2010 the melnikov house might make you cry
Finnish documentarian Rax Rinnekangas began his “Five Master Houses of the World” series with Konstantin Melnikov’s hive/studio in Moscow. For those who speak neither Finnish nor Spanish and can’t fully enjoy this trailer, Lumière has posted Richard Pare’s commentary on the Melnikov House as part of a 2009 exhibition of the Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture 1922-32:
Richard Pare – The Melnikov House from Lumière on Vimeo.
Rinnekangas’s master houses series also features Tadao Ando’s Koshino House, Le Corbusier’s Cabanon, Alvar Aalto’s Villa Mairea, and Luis Barragán’s Casa Estudio. More here and worth it.