Materialised Utopia Lef, Vol I.

This article considers Russian architect Anton Lavinsky's project as conservatism. It maintains that the project, using engineering in its future dynamics, engineering as a universal method, engineering released from beneath the moulds of art and subordinated only to the law of socio-technical expediency, strikes at both the artist and the engineer. It defines constructivism as a situation wherein an artist set using his material and regarded it only as a means of creating an impression. It explores the category of utopia that Lavinsky's project belongs to.