Lois Nesbitt is a writer on art and architecture who lives in New York.
"Between 1978 and 1993, Soviet architects Alexander Brodsky and
Ilya Utkin created a series of beautifully complex drawings of
buildings they never expected would be built. In a new edition of a
book collecting their work, Brodsky Utkin, the range of their
"paper architecture" is on display." - Slate
"Highlighting the work of arguably one of the country's leading
young architectural practices, MOS: Selected Works offers valuable
insight into the pair's life and philosophy, not only as
architecture professionals, but also as state-of-the-art designers
and thinkers." - Wallpaper*
"Looking at the images today, there is resonance with the enduring
alienation of huge cities, and the desire for some presence in the
fray." - Hyperallergic
"Open this stylishly designed album and you will be immediately
drawn into the world of poetic utopia. A claustrophobic endless
labyrinth of the Intelligent Market. A Glass Tower, a vertical city
striving to reach unto heaven. A Crystal Palace imag- ined as a
beautiful but unrealizable dream. Going from one drawing to the
next, you will discover new architec- tural dimensions as dreams,
theater, storytelling, fables, memories... Now that our profession
is obsessed with efficiency and pragmatism, this book reminds us
why we wished to become architects in the first place." -
Arquitectura Viva
"The studio's greatest strength - as this book shows - is that its
work surprises and delights but always with clarity and focus." -
Surface
"This 80-page collection of their work is proof that creativity
always thrives, even under difficult conditions." - Selectism
"Though times have certainly changed in Russia and beyond, Brodsky
and Utkin's paper architecture is still poignant and pertinent: a
timeless meditation on what it means to live in a city, whether
that city is Moscow or Manhattan." - Forbes.com
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