100 years after the foundation of the VKhUTEMAS School in Moscow, its educational and research programme in the design disciplines remains one of the cornerstones of contemporary thought in art, design, architecture, and urban planning. 
A seminar called “VKhUTEMAS 100. Space, project, teaching” at the Doctoral School of the IUAV – in collaboration with those institutions in Moscow which inherited the VKhUTEMAS’ intellectual legacy – developed several research lines: a series of lessons on the School’s many disciplinary identities and their intertwining in a common design and training vision; an architectural design seminar seeking the form and type for a specific institution to evidence the presence of the VKhUTEMAS in the city of Moscow, which in its day was a crossroads of ideas of civil, artistic and settlement progress for humanity; a “web building” documenting its production of ideas and projects and its intersections with other traditions of the twentieth-century’s avant-garde schools.
In around two years of meetings between doctoral schools with a grand tradition – those of Venice, Rome, Naples and Bari – there was much debate on suggested designs for the form of what we had decided to call the MIVKh – the Museum of the Idea of VKhUTEMAS – a project for today’s world. 

Maurizio Meriggi
VKhUTEMAS 100
Space, Project, Teaching
isbn 9788862428002
book series Ricerche in composizione urbana
number 8
current edition 11 / 2022
first edition 11 / 2022
language Italian/English
size 24x28cm
pages 240
print color
binding paperback
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the author
Maurizio Meriggi, trained at the Polytechnic of Milan where he has been teaching architectural and urban composition since 2003. He is a member of the teaching staff of the Architectural Composition curriculum at the IUAV  Doctorate, and of the International Academy of Architec...

Maurizio Meriggi, trained at the Polytechnic of Milan where he has been teaching architectural and urban composition since 2003. He is a member of the teaching staff of the Architectural Composition curriculum at the IUAV  Doctorate, and of the International Academy of Architecture – Moscow branch. He has coordinated several international researches on the legacy of the Soviet avant-garde with exhibitions on some key figures (K. S. Mel’nikov, 1999, and I. I. Leonidov, 2007) presented at the Triennale di Milano and in other international venues; he has published several researches on key figures and issues of this tradition and their legacy for contemporary debate (The Green City,  2008; Three Studios at VKhUTEMAS, 2012; The role of structure in the architecture of the Soviet avant-garde and in the work of V. G. Šuchov, 2013; M. Ja. Ginzburg, architect and constructivist theorist and the culture of VKhUTEMAS, 2022). He has participated in several European researches (Green Structures and Urban Planning, 1999-2005;  Planning Urban Management of the Architectural Heritage, 2010-2015). Since 2005 he has been carrying out research and projects on the transformation of the Chinese contemporary city (Milan-Beijing. Territories of discomfort, 2008) and on the legacy of rural settlement structure in China (The architecture of the urban-rural continuum in China. Hakka Settlements in Eastern Guangdong, 2018).

 

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