Usa/ussr: Architecture And War

摘要

On March 15,1945, a week after Germany began its final offensive of World War II in the oilfields of Hungary, Soviet architects, engineers, and students flocked to an exhibition at the House of the Architects in Moscow. They found images of prefabricated houses, descriptions of heating and plumbing utilities, samples of building materials, and proposals for the radical reform of residential construction after the end of the war. All of the material presented in Moscow was drawn from American sources, and the show itself was a gift from an American institution: the Museum of Modern Art.