Commentary continues to proliferate in the architecture community after Cooper Union’s last-minute decision to postpone the exhibition Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde, which was supposed to open on January 25. The Soviet design school opened in Moscow in 1920 and operated for a decade before being shut down in 1930.
Architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen, author of Building a New New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture and coeditor of the forthcoming Detroit–Moscow–Detroit: An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917–1945, told AN that the postponement is “totally ridiculous.”
Over the weekend, a letter of support was circulated to demonstrate support for the show and its contents. As of
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