Unbuildable Tatlin?! (English and German Edition) - Hardcover

9783211992012: Unbuildable Tatlin?! (English and German Edition)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3211992014 ISBN 13: 9783211992012

Publisher: Springer Vienna Architecture, 2013

Vladimir Tatlin's (1885-1953) world famous monument design for the III International dating back to 1919 is considered an icon of Russian constructivism. All the demands made of revolutionary design as employed by Soviet cultural propaganda were taken to an extreme in this Utopian design. Tatlin's monument was designed to be 400 meters tall, making it one hundred meters taller than the Eiffel Tower. It stood for the belief in a new architecture with its playful ignorance of constructive logic.

But could Tatlin's monument be built today, could it have been built in 1920? Students at the Institute of Architecture of the Vienna University of Applied Arts carefully explored the constructive circumstances before they finally subjected the monument itself to a close examination. Model photos taken in 1920 were three dimensionally reconstructed with the help of the University's geometry department. The answers to the key questions won't be revealed here, but: they were found and are shown in the book in an engaging and exciting manner.

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About the Author

Wolf D. Prix was born in 1942 and studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, at the Architectural Association in London and at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles. He is one of the founders of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. He has been a full professor of architecture since 1993 and has served as the chairman of the Architecture Institute of the Vienna University of Applied Arts since 2003.

From the Back Cover

Vladimir Tatlins Monument zur III. Internationalen (1919) ist mit Sicherheit eines der signifikantesten Projekte des sowjetischen Konstruktivismus. Weit weniger sicher ist, ob �Tatlins Turm� zur Zeit seiner urspr�nglichen Planung �berhaupt baubar gewesen w�re? Und: w�re er denn mit den heutigen Mitteln und M�glichkeiten in Planung, Berechnung und Materialverarbeitung realisierbar? Diesen Fragen stellte sich ein Seminar der Tragkonstruktionen 3 (Prof. Klaus Bollinger) am Institut f�r Architektur der Universit�t f�r angewandte Kunst in Wien; die vorl�ufigen Antworten und Ahnungen sind in dem hier vorliegenden Band zusammengefasst. Erg�nzend zu den Arbeiten der StudentInnen geben Texte von Klaus Bollinger, Frank Werner, Florian Medicus, Gabriele Werner, Georg Glaeser und Franz Gruber einen �berblick zur theoretischen, historischen, konstruktiven und geometrischen Relevanz und Intention Vladimir Tatlins. Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument for the III. International (1919) is certainly one of the most significant projects of Soviet Constructivism. It is, however, not at all certain whether “Tatlin’s Tower” could even be built at all at the time it was originally planned. And whether it would be constructed today with the presently available means and possibilities of planning, calculating and processing materials is equally uncertain. The seminar on Structural Design 3 (Prof. Klaus Bollinger) focused on these reflections at the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The preliminary answers and assumptions are summed up in the present volume. Complementing the works by students, texts by Klaus Bollinger, Frank Werner, Florian Medicus, Gabriele Werner, Georg Glaeser and Frank Gruber provide an overview of the theoretical, historical, constructive and geometric relevance of Vladimir Tatlin’s work and the architect’s intentions.

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