Constructivisme / Shukhov Tower

At some point some artists were more interested in the idea of build rather than decorate. This practice linked to a time is called constructivism.

Constructivisme in architecture was perhaps the most concrete application and the most revolutionary of the spirit of the “Avant Gardisme” this artistic movement born of the 1917 events, the Soviet constructivist architecture inspired the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier, the most famous spectacular contemporary constructions and new forms of collective housing in all the major capitals.

The engineer Shukhov had a hard time to accept the Revolution, and the nineteenth-century Reformation. Yet he offered his most brilliant discoveries in the socialist power, without ever denying his personal beliefs, he has always served the country. Shukhov tower in the Moscow district of Shabolovka is only the most spectacular creations of the engineer, who also revolutionized the transportation and processing of black gold. Order of Lenin to spread the socialist message to the world, the Shukhov tower, like most constructivist buildings, has since the construction had to revise its ambitions disproportionate in the light of various shortages of time. This piece of art continues to serve emitter today, even threatened with destruction.