The Lost Vanguard

The Lost Vanguard, (photographer Richard Pare) currently exhibiting at MoMA, is a collection of photographs of structures from the former Soviet Union which were built during The Modernist era's dominant period, the 1920s and 1930s. Many were inacessible to the outside world until the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in the early 1990s.

(Above photo Moscow radio tower and below, detail)

(above photo, detail from Centrosoyuz Building, Moscow,
architect Le Corbusier)

(Above photo suburban Moscow garage
by Konstantin Melnikov)

(Konstantin Melnikov's famous house and detail below)