# Drawings and models by Yuri Avvakumov

Sepulchral Skyscraper (with M.Belov) 1983

Yuri Avvakumov's drawings and models are wonderful in both their creativity and their very strong expression. During the last thirty years he developed a crude and fairly violent architectural language that both questions architecture's political and institutional role.

Avvakumov is part of what has been called the "paper architects" just like the amazing Brodsky & Utkin (see previous post)

Bridge Over the Wall (with J.Kuzin) 1987



Red Tower(with J.Kuzin & S.Podyomshchikov) 1988

Aerobridge 2001

Stair-ladder barricade 1989

Tribune for Sportsman-Parliamentarian 1991

Tribune for a Leninist 1988

Worker & Farmer International 1990

# Complement to dpr-barcelona's article about Brodsky & Utkin

Last September, our friends from dpr-barcelona published an interesting article about Russian artists Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin. I, therefore won't publish any etchings that have already been but instead bring some more of those magnificent Borgesian architectures created by Brodsky and Utkin.
The wonderful etching above reminds me of Zarathustra's funambulist (this word does not exist in English but I find it much more beautiful than the regular tight-rope walker) that I posted earlier.
Brodsky and Utkin makes us feel the beauty of a monumental world (i.e. a world that is a monument) that the individual has to experience alone and continuously just like in a Kafka's novel.

# dpr-barcelona (Ethel Baraona Pohl + César Reyes Nájera)

dpr-barcelona is apparently a new blog which motto is beyond books/between art, science and architecture and although there are not a lot of articles yet, I definitely recommend to read them especially the one on Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin, the paper architects...