Avant-Garde as Method: VKHUTEMAS AND THE PEDAGOGY OF SPACE, 1920–1930
Avant-Garde as Method: VKHUTEMAS AND THE PEDAGOGY OF SPACE, 1920–1930
$65.00
Kobov, Anna
Park Books 2021
SKU: S01842
With Avant-Garde as Method, architect and historian Anna Bokov explores the nature of art and technology education in the Soviet Union. The pedagogical program at Vkhutemas, she shows, combined longstanding academic ideas and practices with more nascent industrial era ones to initiate a new type of pedagogy that took an explorative approach and drew its strength from continuous feedback and exchange between students and educators. Elaborating on the ways the Vkhutemas curriculum challenged established canons of academic tradition by replacing it with open-ended inquiry, Bokov then shows how this came to be articulated in architectural and urban projects within the school’s advanced studios.
CL/320 pp.
