Opened in 1928, this underappreciated Soviet masterpiece was a precursor to brutalism – three decades before the term was coinedDerzhprom, the House of State Industry, is a large governmental building at the centre of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. It is also arguably the most interesting – and one of the least known – buildings of the “heroic age” of modern architecture in the interwar years.One reason why it isn’t as famous as it could be is that Kharkiv is not particularly well-known outside of Ukraine; another because the architects who designed it were not among the theory-spinning ideologues and stars …read more
Source: The Guardian
