ARCHIVE

摘要

'To the English reader', writes the editor of the Architectural Review in its May 1932 issue, 'a discussion of architecture in terms of "ideology" will be somewhat startling. The very word may give him a headache'. So did the AE introduce 'Berthold Lubetkin, one of the well-known proletarian architects' to the English-speaking public, in a special issue on Russia. Here, for the first time, Georgian-born Lubetkin began his role as explainer of all things Soviet, one which he would resume 20 years later. Although he never built a single structure in the USSR and spent far less of his career there than in Britain, he was a semi-official architectural attache of the Soviet government, working on its pavilions at international expos, before going into private practice first in Paris, then more famously in London. He was also a lifelong Marxist, and it is this especially that was expected to alarm the readers of the AR.