Towards a New Architecture
Inspired by Le Corbusier's collections of essays and manifestos, I created an artwork embodying the essential elements of future architecture, which incorporates the use of advanced technology but does not seek to be merely controlled by it, nor is architecture in any way submissive to technology. The figure in the background declaring "To a new architecture!" is an illusion of how powerful political or spiritual leaders are capable of evoking the masses' emotions. The building in which the figure is placed is Melnikov's Soviet Pavilion, at the 1925 Paris Exhibition.
The City of Future
Inspired by the writings of multiple constructivists, I decided to draw the the city of future (a linear city) in a whimsical way. This painting is heavily influenced by Ivan Leonidov’s Competition Proposal for the Town of Magnitogorsk (1930).
Architectonic Movement
"Architectonic Movement '' is a form exploration that attempts to transcribe fluid and a continuous stream of movements to shattered/frame-to-frame forms, as though each candid movement is captured in an instant. This translation from cinematics to architecture is partially inspired by Bernard Tschumi's Manhattan Transcript. This piece is an attempt to translate the cinematic language of Sergei Eisenstein's film "Aleksandr Nevsky" to 3-dimensional forms rendered in a 2-dimensional format.
