There is no notion of style in these spatiallyvolumetric compositions. Employing various platonic figures Melnikov created an architectural exercise similar to those at “The New Academy”. In some of the sketches the
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of neoclassicism, and any notion of history, were employed to create new labor civilization. The freedom of Melnikov creative method is evident from the series of sketches for the Exposition pavilion. The sculptural approach to architectural composition comprised of platonic shapes trapezoid, sphere, and symbolically important for soviet constructivism a triangle. The shift in the single career of the understanding
symbolical composition. The Circle, Triangle, Trapezoid are the new medium of the architecture parlante18. Étienne-Louis Boullée using platonic figures was revolutionary architect of his time, but the difference that architects of 1920’s introduced is dissociation of this forms from a notion of style and order. Abstract geometrical compositions assembled in the new revolutionary language striking out from the civilized heritage
15. S. Frederick Starr, “Melnikov, Solo Architect in a Mass Society” Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1981 p. 79 16. El Lisitzky, “Russland: Die rekokstruktion der Architectur in der Sowjetunion”, Vienna, 1930 p 90. 17. S. Frederick Starr, “Melnikov, Solo Architect in a Mass Society” Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1981 p. 66 18. K. N. Afanasiev, “Iz istorii sovetskoi arkhitektury 19171925, dokumenty i materialy” Moscow, 1963, p158