Rusakov Workers' Club
Three cantilevered auditoriums jut out like gear teeth, the form spelling out the function
- Author
- Konstantin Melnikov
- Style
- Constructivism — Art as engineering: form follows structure, and buildings and posters build a new way of life
- Century
- 20th century
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