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hinder the development of new social relations of people." In this view, the village is a setting for the extraction of raw materials, which are then transported to cities in order to be processed. At the same time, people naturally organize their place of dwelling in accordance with their economic function, leading to the overcrowding of cities and the thinning out of villages. In order to fix this settlement imbalance,
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natural paints, their chemical compositions, comparisons of colors by how much light they absorb or reflect, etc. One article, "Color and Work," examined the findings of experiments measuring the impact of different colors on worker productivity. The other specifically themed 1929 issues were the third and sixth, entitled "Constructions of
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promoted. For example, the journal articulated a vision for "the communal home," defined as a complex of studio apartments with a communal dining room, kitchen, recreational rooms, and bathrooms. The following issue's theme was "Light and Color," and it featured articles discussing where to acquire
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argued, industry should leave from the city centers and go out to the districts where the production of raw materials takes place. From there, "the unification of industry and agriculture into one whole also will be the new condition for the placement of dwellings, for the resettlement of people."
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and stylization in the spirit of a "constructive style." The journal adopted slogans such as: "Down with eclecticism!"; "Long live the functional method of thinking!"; "Long live constructivism!" The more theoretical articles in the journal repeatedly underscored that constructivism was not a new
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ideology: "Constructivism, born from the revolution and forming its working method in a period of the building of new economic relationships, in a period of the building of socialism, first and foremost, more persistently than anything else dictates to the architect the invention of new types of
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frequently took up. The author noted that "Weissenhof outlines the path along which the construction of modernity must go, the path of the housewife's liberation from superfluous expenditure of energy. Modernity demands the immediate application of all the achievements of technology... for the
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and OSA during those five years. That same year, OSA and other previously independent Moscow-based architectural organizations entered into the Moscow Branch of the All-Union
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served as a platform for presenting and illustrating the constructivists' project of revolutionizing residential living for a socialist society in the twentieth century and put forward new ideas on numerous theoretical topics and innovative new projects in the field of architecture.
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to provide an example of how to solve the problem of mass construction of housing with considerations for the efficient use of time and materials. Additionally, it included a normative discussion of technology and its social implications, another theme that
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Four of the 1929 issues indicated their overarching theme on their respective covers. The theme for the first 1929 issue was "Contemporary
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