Participants will learn what Constructivism is, talk about what makes the Narkomfin Building different, and discuss how color affects our perception of architecture.
The creative part of the meeting will involve modeling the interiors of the Narkomfin Building from paper.
Nastya Kopysova is an art historian, children’s programs tutor, and tour guide. She organizes art courses at the School of the Young Art Historian, Moscow State University.
Experimental House: How I Lived in the Narkomfin Building by Polina Pokladok is a children’s book on the history of the Narkomfin Building. The book’s protagonist, a young boy named Petya who lived in the building in the 1930s introduces the reader to this amazing construction. He tells us about its unusual design, the cell apartments, the new lifestyle of the residents, and even about the secrets of the building, such as where the black-and-white doors from the fourth-floor corridor led. Together with Petya, the reader will pay a visit to the architect Moisei Ginzburg and see the penthouse of Nikolai Milyutin, who inspired the construction of the building.
Polina Pokladok is an art historian who specializes in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Russian architecture and is a researcher at the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture. She graduated in the History of Russian Art from Moscow State University. She takes part in academic conferences, gives lectures, and leads tours for adults and children. In 2023, the book What Melnikov Invented, co-authored by Polina, won the Arch Moscow exhibition award for «Best Children’s Book on Architecture.» In 2023, another children’s book on architecture that she co-authored, Alexey Shchusev: The Architect Who Conquered Time, was published.
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