In these days of CAD (computer-aided design) the structures of Constantin Brancusi, Georges Vantongerloo, El Lissitsky and Vladimir Tatlin may feel quaint.
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Sharply angled steel-and-glass enclosures for stairs and elevators recall early Russian constructivist designs like Tatlin's elaborate unbuilt platforms rising precariously into thin air.
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Tatlin's 1920 "Monument to the Third International" is here in a massive 1979 reconstruction and belongs to an older tradition of visionary architecture as much as it does to the innovations of abstraction.
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