{"id":9990,"date":"2011-09-16T01:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9990"},"modified":"2011-09-16T01:58:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T00:58:00","slug":"the-paper-architecture-of-brodsky-and-utkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/09\/16\/the-paper-architecture-of-brodsky-and-utkin\/","title":{"rendered":"The paper architecture of Brodsky and Utkin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Hill with a Hole.<\/em><\/p>\n

Searching around for Kafka images yesterday turned up a reminder of the etchings of Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin, a pair of Russian “Paper Architects” who channelled their frustration with the intransigence of Soviet authorities in the 1980s into a series of remarkable drawings. As with much architectural fantasy, these are part unrealistic exaggeration and part serious proposal, with the viewer left to decide whether the world really needs a hill with a hole.<\/p>\n

Princeton Architectural Press published Brodsky & Utkin: The Complete Works<\/em><\/a> by Lois Nesbitt in 2003 which is no doubt the source of the available scans. Of those, there’s a small Flickr collection here<\/a>, while the late, lamented Nonist had a post about the book<\/a> which repeats some of the same imagery. For more about Russia’s other paper architects see Russian Utopia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The etching and engraving archive<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The art of Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten<\/a>
\n\u2022 Hugh Ferriss and The Metropolis of Tomorrow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Hill with a Hole. Searching around for Kafka images yesterday turned up a reminder of the etchings of Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin, a pair of Russian “Paper Architects” who channelled their frustration with the intransigence of Soviet authorities in the 1980s into a series of remarkable drawings. As with much architectural fantasy, these … Continue reading “The paper architecture of Brodsky and Utkin”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,42,21],"tags":[2887,710,398,2888,2889],"class_list":["post-9990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-fantasy","tag-alexander-brodsky","tag-francois-schuiten","tag-hugh-ferriss","tag-ilya-utkin","tag-lois-nesbitt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2B8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}