In March 2021, RECORD published a joint book review by Eric Mumford on two titles concerning Russian architectural history. The subject of one of these books, a short-lived Moscow design academy established in 1920 known as Vkhutemas, has made headlines in recent weeks after the late-January opening of an exhibition on the Soviet school titled Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde, 1920-1930 was postponed by The Cooper Union in New York in reaction to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. Architect and architectural historian Anna Bokov, an adjunct assistant professor at Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, is the author of the aforementioned 2021 book on Vkhutemas and curator of the exhibition, which features student research and studio work.
Much ink has been spilled on the controversial decision to postpone the exhibition. On February 6, Cooper Union leadership announced that the exhibition will be staged this spring and be supported by public programming and "additional materials that will frame the various issues that have been explored and raised.” An opening date has not yet been announced.
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