This Thursday [March 27th] at 7 PM, LFA will host Tatiana Efrussi’s presentation of her newly released book, “Hannes Meyer: Soviet Architect. Life and Work in the USSR, 1930–1936.”
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Dr. Tatiana Efrussi is an architecture and art historian as well as an artist. Since 2010, she has been researching the influence of political ideas on architectural practice and urban realities in both Soviet and German contexts in the 20th century.
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Swiss architect and urban planner, the second director of the Bauhaus Dessau, Hannes Meyer, spent about six years in the USSR—from 1930 to 1936. This book presents the first in-depth study of Hannes Meyer's activities during the years of early Stalinism. There is a global interest in this architect’s legacy today, but his work can hardly be understood without a closer examination of the key chapter in his career.
