PREVI

James Stirling project 1967

In October 2009 we visited the site of PREVI in Lima, Experimental Housing Project from 1969. The project was devised by Government of Peru and United Nations to deal with the growing problem of housing in Peru. Thirteen architects from Peru and thirteen international architects were invited to take part in this project. Among them was James Stirling, Aldo van Eyck, Atelier 5, Charles Correa and Japan trio Kikutake-Maki-Kurokawa. 

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Sound: Nuve

Leonid Vesnin

photo: Richard Pare

In the 1920s and 1930s Baku (Black City), the capital of Azerbaijan, became a ground for modernist architectural innovations. Housing developement in a suburb of Baku in Shaumian Community is an early example of using standardized elements in construction. Here in 1929 Leonid Vesnin designed two worker´s clubs. Buildings are expressed by their vertical circulation on the exterior. Staircases create the columns framing the austere monumental facade. Although no longer used for its original purpose, the building has recently been renovated.  

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Sound: Хиазм