Avant-Garde as Method

Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930

Anna Bokov

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Park Books
01 April 2021

Avant-Garde as Method explores the nature of design education in the Soviet Union 1920-30. The mass character of teaching art and technology was as an essential condition for the modernist paradigm the Soviet communists maintained. The Higher Art and Technical Studios in Moscow, known as VkHUTEMAS, adopted the 'objective method' in order to facilitate instruction on a mass scale. It translated contemporary scientific knowledge and abstract visual language into modern design pedagogy. The school's curriculum was the first-ever attempt to implement such a mass design education. It combined nascent industrialised and long-standing academic methods to initiate a new, universalist type of pedagogy that took an explorative approach building around a continuous feedback between assignments and solutions and that was based on active exchange between students and teachers. Anna Bokov's book examines the way in which the VkHUTEMAS curriculum challenged the established canons of academic tradition by replacing it with an open-ended inquiry into abstract form. It traces how the resultant architectonic experiments were articulated into architectural and urban projects within the framework of the school's advanced studios.

AUTHOR: Anna Bokov is an architect, urban designer, educator, and historian, teaching and researching as an Assistant Professor Adjunct at Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York.

SELLING POINTS: .

A groundbreaking new study on the VkHUTEMAS and their pioneering curriculum .

Examines the way the VkHUTEMAS challenged established canons of academic tradition .

Highlights their advanced explorative pedagogic approach building around a continuous feedback between assignments and solutions and demonstrates the lasting significance of the VkHUTEMAS' heritage .

Based on latest research at previously inaccessible archives and featuring numerous previously unpublished images and documents

965 colour, 80 b/w illustrations

By: Anna Bokov
Imprint: Park Books
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 310mm, Width: 240mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 2.750kg
ISBN: 9783038601340
ISBN 10: 3038601349
Pages: 624
Publication Date: 01 April 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Anna Bokov is an architect, urban designer, educator, and historian, teaching and researching as an Assistant Professor Adjunct at Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York.

Reviews for Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930

Bokov's comprehensive and richly illustrated account of Vkhutemas demonstrates that much of the teaching methodology associated with the Bauhaus was, in fact, first developed at this Soviet institution. -- Eric Paul Mumford, Architectural Record;