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Abstract
The revolutionary school of architectural teaching – VKhUTEAMAS (1923-1926) was a new approach for a new society which aimed to bring architectural education to the masses and masses to the growing industrial production. Archival material pertaining to this extraordinary period of teaching research has been an important historical reference, existing in archives in the Russia Federation, America, Canada, Germany and the UK. The history of the schools teaching methodology and archival material remains unknown within academic circles and separate from the current architectural curriculum.
Dr. Matthew Armitt is a Lecturer in architecture at the Birmingham City School of Architecture
and Design and also teaches architecture at the University of Liverpool School Of Architecture.
His research focusses on the period of the 1920s and 1930s on Soviet Architecture, Theory,
and Architectural Teaching having researched in the Russia Federation, America, and Canada
and at Cambridge University. Beyond his research and teaching, Matthew founded the research
group Russia House (www.russia-house.com) created as a collaborative research collective to
celebrate Soviet creative thought of