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... — castyourart.com
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A bit of history . During Glasnost times Brodsky came to SCI-Arc as a cultural exchange of sorts. The newly formed Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR), invited Soviet architects to come to Los Angeles and some members of the LA AIA went to Moscow.
Brodsky was part of the four member Soviet group, the rising star, to showcase . The others in the group were the head of the Soviet equivalent of AIA, previous head who was the one who agreed to the exchange, and a Soviet Armenian architecture historian who presented a survey of Armenian holocaust monuments.
Brodsky showed his allegorical drawings which were later collected in a book published by Princeton Architectural Press.
Afterwards we all did the meet and greet. The remarkable thing about this was that Brodsky, nor the ADPSR would of happened except for the persistence of a student of mine ( I forget her name) who asked why cant there be an Architects for Social Responsibility? like at the time Scientist, Physicians and also Lawyers for Social Responsibility. It became her class project. Rose Marie Rabin, who managed Sci-Arc's library at the time, put the non-profit organization together. An idea that grew almost by accident, based on a what-if suggestion.
Which is how Brodsky came to SCI-Arc
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