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White Room/Black Room: Alexander Brodsky

2012-10-07T18:41:00-04:00

The main basis of his fame isn't built work but imaginary projects and sculptures and installations that might be called architectural art. An artist was what he wanted to be as a child, and when he graduated as an architect during the Brezhnev era he wasn't interested in working for "one of the big state institutions" which were the only likely sources of employment. So he started dreaming up "paper architecture", imaginary projects, in collaboration with the artist Ilya Utkin.

Alexander Brodsky - It still amazes me that I became an architect

2011-12-14T20:33:57-05:00

At the beginning of his career, Alexander Brodsky is part of the “paper-architecture“ movement even though at that point, at the beginning of the eighties, there is no movement in the true sense yet. The notion “paper-architecture” rather expresses a typical limitation to architectural creativity in the Soviet Union of the time: Young architects who would refuse to fit in with the established architecture system would have no means to carry out their projects...

Alexander Brodsky: Artist and Architect

2008-02-07T13:00:00-05:00

Icon examines the work of this Russian whose work to date consists mainly of installations, pavilions and other emphemeral architecture.
Would it be wrong to say his work is very Russian? He is rooted in a sense of history and bemoans the loss of the old Russia, especially it's urban fabric, due to the new post-Soviet rush towards architectural capitalism.
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