Soviet Modernism. Brutalism. Post-modernism | Short Film
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- Short film in support of the upcoming book Soviet Modernism. Brutalism. Post-modernism. Buildings and Projects in Ukraine 1960-1990 (Osnovy Publishing / DOM publishers).
Its a wonderful representation of Kyiv's eclectic architectural beauty. Unfortunately we might be seeing the last of some of these outstanding buildings.
Producer / Director - Roman Blazhan
DOP - Mikhail Volkov
Music - Horizon Music Studio / Aleks Che
Eastern Europe and USSR has amazing examples of brutalist architecture like nowhere else on earth .
Is it really brutalism with its weird completely out of touch social goals though? The communist countries rather responded to a crisis in housing by creating buildings from cheap and mass producable materials.
"Perhaps, in 10 years, there will be nothing left from those objects in their original shape, many will be remodeled or demolished."
Very foreboding, but for the wrong reasons.
Looks like they will be just destroyed, especially in Ukraine, unfortunately.
Декоммунизация затрагивает только памятники и названия улиц, что то здания они не сносят
@@sovsemoxueli he's referring to the war
aesthetic and nostalgic. cheers from lithuania
But I thought you, guys are extremely russophobic nazi and anti soviet. Aren't you?
@@dahlbelzalan5892 Yes, a lot are.
Ну значит русский знаете)
Far too cool! Love this. I’m seeing this short-sightedness in my own city, it’s heart-breaking.
Tschumi remarked how people appreciate alive or completely dead architecture but not rotting architecture. And that where the former generation’s architecture often lies.
I always wondered the story behind those giant brutalist buildings in Russia and whereabouts. This is nostalgic and to know that the goverment wont help refurbish or maintain those magestic pieces has a bittersweet tint at the end for me
You find these in the UK too
Well, hardly anyone likes them but architects.
@@MrReedlingyeah they're disgusting haha
Modernism is beautiful. Preserve, renovate and celebrate it.
@@jlord9638 Strong disagreement. Entirely too much gingerbread for my taste. However, we can still like different things.
I'm so happy that I can still walk outside and see modernism architecture in my city
Where do you live, very lucky
@@TH-ux6bj Warsaw
Прекрасное видео, оно без сложных терминов смогло донести атмосферу и суть советского модернизма. И этот стук секундой стрелки в конце...шедевр!
Серьезно? Я не смог вытерпеть занудное интро
This is beautifully crafted
Hey, my boyfriend and I are planning to renovate our post-soviet apartment into a modern style apartment, how many of you would be interested in seeing the progress?
Niya I would be interested
Niya I'm down. I would live to see that. Subscribed.
thank you all! will start really soon ^_^
@@nia5449 awesome
Upload those videos. That sounds like a great little series that I would watch the shot out of.
There has always been something amazing about these types of buildings
True, the modernism is different way of thinking, it has no connection with past... unfortunately it’s true that the modernism of 60’s and 20’s century lost they revolution, but it doesn’t mean that is defeated
Good job! Cheers from Poland ;)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland
This architectural style looks great in anamorphic. (Saw the link on the Anamorphic Shooters Facebook group)
Sadly one of the first things that came to my mind when the Russian invasion of Ukraine commenced was this this video and Ukraine's beautiful, imposing architecture. I truly hope the cultural heritage of Ukraine will not be lost to Russian barbarism.
Russians build those buildings all former soviet workers build those buildings, did you know that every city has a theme from every country from the ussr
@@polyakadamaltnurdaenjoyer3599Russia ≠ USSR, I doubt everyone who worked on these beauties were Russian.
grey, inhuman and depressing. love n it!!!!! great work
Omg, 2 of those buildings (the National Scientific-Technical Library, the building with the sphere, and the House of Furniture, the one with the concaved roof, are from the neighborhood I used to live in!
Хорошо, что нами интересуются
Beautiful cinematography.
Perfeito trabalho, impecável ! muita sensibilidade audiovisual !!! LuvBrutalism !!!
Очень красивое видео!!! Спасибо за такой взгляд на эти красивые здания!!!
This video is pure art.
1:55 "Todays architects do not engage in a dialogue with yesterdays". 2:25 "We always 'turn' to the legacy of 'grandfathers and grandmothers'" - said while studying the architecture of the 60ies and 70ies.
I.E: you are doing exactly that yourselves.
Great film
Interesting to hear this given what’s happening these past months
So good!
In first and second “five year plan” soviet had plenty of great building deisgh but we all know is WW2 come and soviet union lost almost everything in war against Germans
In the war none of those buildings even stood, brutalism came to the ussr in 1949
Stalin actually had a sense of aesthetics, which can be seen in prestige buildings. One that will last a long time is the metro station design. Soviet style in general isn't the same as brutalism despite the end results looking similar
amazing job !
This video is cleaner than my grandma’s kitchen.
thank's for the laugh!
Perfect!
harrowingly foreboding
Muy bueno lastimosamente muchos después dee la guerra actual ya no están de pie.
touching video
beautiful
Loved it
really really good editing and sound
I see no problem with minimalism, but not everything should be minimalist. As for brutalism, I absolutely love it when it's in a fictional dystopian authoritarian or totalitarian society as art. Seriously, these buildings give you a feeling of total power and absolute oppression. They have a very negative energy to them. In my very opinion, this architecture only fits well on prisons and any military infrastructures. Imagine schools with this architecture...
I generally believe that brutalism is not a good thing since mental health is very important for all of us human beings. Poor mental health forms unwanted byproducts in our society. For example, mass shooters. In order to prevent as much poor mental health, I believe that brutalism should also be reduced. We better leave the historic ones alone. They are history. Let's not build more of them.
I don't see basis in what you say
To me soviet modernism exudes bright futurism and progressiveness
At least in Moscow
For many these buildings are an eyesore, a hint to the past that was filled with oppression, for others it gives room to breathe. Order, structure and organization in a chaotic world. A straight line. Communist ideals. Back when people believed humanity can overcome their struggles, when they looked up to cosmonauts.
@@mirelion5328it isn't the same as brutalism though
I came up with a rather practical answer to what I took as the main theme of this video essay. In response to why architecture pays no attention or respect to the architecture styles and philosophy of it's predicesors. I would imagine it is mostly to do with the lifespan of almost all buildings is roughly equivalent to the lifespan of a human. And in the same way as most kids wouldn't be caught dead listening to the same music there parents did or would rather go naked than to dress in the clothes that were in fashion when there parents were at the same age. Architect have to have the same kind of Freudian hatred for everything there parents held up as progress. So there's a generational flip and 180° about face in just about everything. So buildings are no different. You can't just go back and repaint the facade and add a new dome ceiling to the top of the building your dad built. No. It's just a natural instinct to want to dynamite the shit out of the old ways of your parents. Blow the hell out of it to where nothing is left but dust. Only then can a person build there own castle and monument to your own generations greatness. So buildings are never built to last more than 100 years at most. And even if a building is 100 years old and still fully functional. Most often, it's long since been abandoned because of the transitory flux of a cities population size. Out with the old. Up with the new.
Give me more! This feels like an intro
really good job!
wow. i wanna dive down all the rabbit holes of this video. where to even start
Love the video - could someone tell me where I could find the music by itself, though? It's so great!
The composer of the music is in the description box.
Maybe you can reach out to them via TH-cam (th-cam.com/channels/jtLfyB5ZstFCzGXdCbiJmw.html ) and just ask where to get their music.
I just dont get why people dont see the beauty in it. Just like cubist architecture. Sure it looks weird next to an old building but contrasts must be visible, defiant and challenging.
That's where people disagree. Humans generally like harmony so when such a building exists among traditional aesthetic ones, it is ugly. Within a place of similar style buildings, it won't be such an eyesore
Love it. Spotted a few in there like the Ukraine bus garage
gem!
This kinda reminded me the city of Brasilia. Built in the 60s by a communist in a country and a time that was a crime to be a communist.
Thanks to the comment by viewer Ernest Lukack, I know of the Vemadsky, but I’ll have to research the other buildings in this video and beyond so that I can learn about the architectural creativity of the period behind the Curtain.
top notch
beautiful!!! I am a composer and I am wondering if I can add a composition of mine to this video?
ОЧень стильно и классно снято! Ребята, вам респект!!! Интересная оптика использовалась, возможно, кстати - какой нибудь Гелиос тоже из союза ;)
The United Nations needs to recognize these historical beautiful buildings as a world heritage site.
There is nothing historical or worth historical merit of these soulless boxes.
Rustycaddy The fact people are criticizing these buildings and paying attention to them are proof they need to be preserved. I like them we need to recognize the good bad and the ugly of humanity. These buildings could easily be painted and restored you could add color and art to them.
that's a great video, what song was used? Can't find it with the credits...
wow, it's so amazing video
Very well done. Yes, you are right. You could've gone further...
Great video. I also travelled to Ukraine for brutalism!
Теперь там его нет
I just bought the book!
I live in California and really want to go to Ukraine to appreciate all these beautiful buildings.
Let us hope they will be still standing.
If not Ukraine you can pretty much see those buildings in the former Warsaw Pact countries and other ussr nations
Does anybody understand what those rather empty phrases mean?
It's pretty profound if you take it from an art perspective. One of the ideas I got from here is communication, or more precisely, lack of communication between the generation of architects that were gapped by their era of thinking.
Muito legal do sul do Brasil.
пересматриваю периодически уже годами, а вы не хотите снять полнометражку про модернизм Киева?
Great product! Synthesis of arts!
I am inspired by a book recently published on this topic.
The video conveys a whole mood. However, the semantic subtext remained incomprehensible to me. If reconstruction is presented as an urgent need, then why is the revolution described in the final words as a value?
VN những năm 60s, phong cách kiến trúc hiện đại này từng thịnh hành cho trường học, bệnh viện, cơ quan nhà nước và cả nhà dân. Không hiểu sao nó đột ngột mất đi, thay vào đó cũng là 1 ngôn ngữ hiện đại khác dùng nhiều kính và thép, vẻ ngoài thân thiện hơn, không uy nghiêm và sức mạnh như phong cách cũ.
@@quangminhnguyen2504 Vâng. Phong cách Brutalism này thật ra bắt nguồn từ Anh, Tây Âu 1 thời cũng nhiều nơi chuộng nó. Nhưng có thể như bạn nói, do sau đó nó đc sử dụng rộng rãi ở khối CS. Trở thành 1 biểu tượng đặc trưng của Kiến trúc XHCN và phong trào nghệ thuật Hiện thực Soviet nên trở nên kém phổ biến đi ở Tây Âu. Ngay cả ở khối CS, nó cũng dần mai một theo thời gian, kém được ưu chuộng, trào lưu đại chúng chạy theo những phong cách khác. Nhiều người nghĩ nó nhìn nhàm chán, lạnh lẽo, kém thân thiện và làm họ liên tưởng tới sự chuyên chế. Riêng mình rất thích sự đồng bộ vật liệu bê tông, tính diễn đạt và sự tương đồng của nó với nghệ thuật điêu khắc. Ngày nay vẫn có thể bắt gặp 1 số toà nhà tiêu biểu tại VN, cụ thể ở HCM có Nhà hát Hoà Bình Q10 của kts Huỳnh Tấn Phát; Đại học Y Dược HCM, ĐH Nông Lâm HCM, Dinh Độc Lập, Chợ Đà Lạt.. của kts Ngô Viết Thụ.
@@quangminhnguyen2504 communism....pros and cons?
A disregard, forgetting and fundamental change of the generations and ideas before? That's sounds like good ol' fashioned Politics to me. Maybe it's the same.
Sounds like someone's personal opinion.
This rocks
Where I can find more musics composed by Aleks Che? I can't find it anywhere.
soundcloud.com/alex_che_live
It is very unfortunate that not all cities protect their legacy, luckily at least here in Germany many brutalist buildings are gaining the protect memorial status.
Ich wohne in einem Plattenbau und höre jeden Tag laut Sovietwave. Meine Nachbarn lieben es
@@deletedaccount-fr4dg 😂😂😂
They destroyed the harmony of Art
Красивое, атмосферное видео.
P.S.
я не понял, дикторы - носители английского? Или это для них иностранный?
Такой проникновенный фильм, до мурашек! 👍🏻🤩
this made me fell like monogatari lol
whats the building at 3:10?
vernadsky national library of ukraine
Architects and their ego 's. Sorry if I say so but they are worst then other creators, worst like other artists.
More like the surgeons among dokters.
Haven 't we got enough, phallus shaped buildings that are about nothing, scattered across this globe?
Love this video, I have a love/ hate relationship with brutalism.
this is quite possibly one of the worst, most abstract, and most incoherent understandings of modernism or postmodernism, there is very obviously a desire to make this as mystical as possible, and it's a bad way to frame a presentation of research into this subject matter. i think i actually started laughing when she said something along the lines of "obviously, there's no communication between this architecture and previous generations", which i hope anyone with some brain cells could figure out is a dramatically poor way of framing the architecture movements
This conflict is generated by politics.
Half of what that lady said was either self-contradictory and manifestly false. I am married to an architect and am a co-author with another. They studied a helluva lot of prior architecture-so the notion that there is no “dialogue” with prior generations of architects seems both extreme and difficult to substantiate
В Киеве на красном хуторе поликлиника(не больница) классная. Ну и поликлиника охмадет на стретенской 7
Thank God these nihilistic offenses to beauty and harmony are being left to rot. Don't tear them down, let them be left as a reminder of psychological warfare against the public
What song is playing?
soundcloud.com/horizonstudiokiev/soviet-modernism-brutalism-post-modernism
This is pretentious as hell, at one point in the script, " studying these objects i try to pay painstaking and comprehensive attention to detail" That's just reasearch, you are expected to do it.
This architecture lacks a human scale and seems to have been built by machines. Its inability to transform over time gives it a grandiose, somewhat narcissistic quality. It reflects a top-down, reductionist approach, missing the organic complexity often seen in fractal designs. Despite being the product of a select few, it is presented as a collective effort, which seems more like a form of social engineering than true community collaboration. Labeling it 'communist' implies a sense of communitarian spirit, but it feels more restrictive, almost like an imposition on individual freedom.
Was this film narrated by Google Translate or something? its filled with nonsequiturs and bizarre syntax errors
Sowjet Union- the best.
I feel like I've learned absolutely nothing and was just listening to an AI generated word salad smash cut with random b-roll. Then it ends on a vaguely pro-Soviet nostalgia which, really, really has not aged well...
Let it die. State worship was the goal of this architecture and the results speak for themselves.
just like chess burgers are the peak freedom a human can get?
@@prasadkashish I like chess, it's a great game. It teaches you strategic thinking. Burgers enslave you in fat.
Russia has been doing a lot of really great traditional architecture in recent years, no doubt as a reaction to the mostly ugly and inhuman brutalism.
… or perhaps it’s to validate the imperialist agenda of Putin. Never forget that the rise of neoclassical architecture and all it’s Greco-Roman influence very directly intersects the intensification of Western colonialism. Architecture is so often a form of political messaging and you really do have to ask; what political messaging is Russia sending out at this moment?
No wonder there so deppresed in russia...
Distopia
maybe for western culture yes, but for eastern slavic countries this is extremely aesthetic and nostalgic. For us modernism feels like distopia
Looks like this sound th-cam.com/video/nt1oVxeK2NE/w-d-xo.html
@@NostalgicMem0ries You are absolutely right, and I am really afraid what will be with these brute beauties in the future
@@slavodanko1885 sadly brutalism architecture and soviet legacy is constantly teared down in most former soviet states, for example im from lithuania, over 30 years most things are destroyed of left to rot, because of severe rusophobia of new generation. Even if building or monument serves purpose or is still usable, it is modernized, westernized and in other ways fucked up. I think another reason why this happening cause western capitalism lovers want to deny and erase all god memories of ussr times of common people =\
@@NostalgicMem0ries I fully agree, I am from Slovakia, also part of the Eastern Bloc, the situation is the same everywhere, most of them are modernized in some, usually not very good way, part is destroyed, and just few of them are kept to be saved for the future. I understand that many people hate soviet times, understand economical side of this problem, but its needed to keep on mind that these buildings are our cultural heritage too.
I hope it fucking dies. Everything Soviet and influenced from those times. I was partially raised in those blocks, whenever I went to countryside I never miss it - the grey and empty feelings.
in my opinion, nothing in communist architecture is even worth saving, besides for nostalgia reasons. the architecture is pretty hideous and alienating.
Moscow Metro is really beautiful. Stalin had some extravagant ideas for prestige buildings. Much of its architecture was just created to cheaply fulfill societal needs so I don't see it as the same as brutalisme
@@napoleonfeanor no need to explain to them who eat western anti-communist propaganda day and night
Це все в Києві!❤️
Beautiful and grotesque.
Dreadful and depressing you can imagine the KGB following you around these soulless structures.
Just got here and it was so informative and yet so aesthetically beautiful
Photograph as much as you can, they get torn down regularly.
i will get back to this video whenever i doubt my decision to go into architecture, the feeling it provoked in me is immense and showed me how i'm going to be a type of person i'll like being through giving my all to this profession
I hope you have a wonderful and fulfilling career !
This whole thing of “we are not speaking of the past generation” is her own personal opinion.. Who are we in this? The stuck up architects? For productive documentary we need a better dialectic analysis than this generalization of her personal theory.
@Вячеслав Гордеев actually I left this last year and after a year of studying in labor studies, here are my few points since then for a little bit of analysis:
“We lost the revolution” assuming this is referring to modernism in terms of design revolution. There is no winners in this or losers btw, that is in fact where the opinion lays.
My theory is part of the reason this type of architecture doesn’t pass down because modernism totally ignored the labor relationship and it effected the Marxian superstructure and base relationship.
The base meaning the work place was managed in a medieval style and workers and designers didn’t have much saying, however their boss and managers had all the sayin. The modernism also destroyed the classical order of architecture. Which was you learn the craft from master and your apprentice would learn the skills you masters and so on.
The modernism turn that over its head. All you have to know was connection to the big clients and be famous like movie stars and soccer players. That in affect through out the craftsmanship and master skills that was passed down. Because money wasn’t about that anymore.
That dialectic relationship between the startchitect and their employees creat a resentment and competition. Then when that happens everyone completes with each other to be famous and this is were the “disconnect” between generation happens.
This is so far my analysis from last year. Cheers
@Вячеслав Гордеев NYC
It will be Future Somethere, because of better Materials Available!!! Very good Style for Klaipeda Lithuania!!! They can build Brutal And Mean Skyscrapers, that would be Super Kool Tourism!!!
Nobody goes to a city full of modern Architecture and skyscrappers. It will cause less tourism.
It has always been about the details and the intuition of things. Their purity and meaning are independent of the ever-changing historical or ideological background throughout which they were conceived. We are speaking about universal genesis. All arbitrary objects, such as buildings, cars, furniture, that are creating the specific appearance in any specific era, are subjected to universal structure no matter what is the superficial and initial motive of the current era to be materialized. These eternal proportions were indeed felt even within the stigmatized and "gray" post-soviet architecture of Kyiv!
Despite essentially also being modernism, there's something so elegant and imposing about Brutalism, especially that of the Soviet era. It didn't feel soulless or sterilized, if anything it was the _complete opposite._
Soviet modernism left an indelible mark on the architectural landscape, serving as a conduit for revolutionary ideals and technological innovation. It spurred the development of new technologies in both design and implementation, paralleling the era's ideological and technological advancements. As we move forward, the notion of recreating or restoring Soviet modernist structures seems redundant; their influence is embedded in the fabric of contemporary architecture. The legacy of Soviet modernism, intertwined with elements of Soviet constructivism, continues to resonate in the works of architects like Richard Rogers, underscoring its enduring relevance.
The symbiotic relationship between technology and architectural evolution is vividly illustrated in the early works of Zaha Hadid. Her embrace of architectural 3D modeling marked a pivotal moment in her career, showcasing the transformative power of technology in design practice.
Repurposing crashed concrete from Soviet brutalist buildings as a foundation for new landmark structures offers a poignant tribute to the past, symbolizing the resilience of communities and architectural heritage. This gesture of continuity and homage should be commemorated with a memorial plaque, underscoring the generational connection and tribute to the enduring legacy of Soviet architecture. It is a tangible reminder of the complexities of history and the evolution of architectural thought, reflecting the interplay between past and present in shaping our built environment.