Alla Vronskaya is professor of architectural history at Kassel University.

"Thanks to her attentive reading of early twentieth-century German and Russian theories, Alla Vronskaya has rewritten the history of the Soviet avant-garde. Revealing the deep roots El Lissitzky, Moisei Ginzburg, and others found in experimental psychology, in the theory of empathy, and in philosophical monism, she has masterfully recast a fundamental chapter in the making of modernity."-Jean-Louis Cohen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University"In her Architecture of Life, Alla Vronskaya resolutely abandons usual political binaries and familiar historical dichotomies that have long straightjacketed the history of socialist modernism. Bringing together Moscow and Berlin, Bauhaus and Constructivism, form and function, individuality and collectivity, she offers a historically rich and conceptually invigorating study of one of the most original architectural experiments of the twentieth century."-Serguei A. Oushakine, Princeton University

• Introduction. Life: An Ideology for Modernity1. Space: Formalist Architectural Pedagogy at the VKhUTEMAS2. Orientation: El Lissitzky’s Evolutionist Urbanism3. Fitness: Nikolay Ladovsky’s Architectural Psychotechnics4. Process: Organicist Aesthetics of Soviet Standardization5. Energy: Soviet Wall-Painting and the Economy of Perception6. Personality: Public Park as a Factory of DealienationConclusion. History: From the Monistic to the TerrestrialAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Alla Vronskaya is professor of architectural history at Kassel University.

"Thanks to her attentive reading of early twentieth-century German and Russian theories, Alla Vronskaya has rewritten the history of the Soviet avant-garde. Revealing the deep roots El Lissitzky, Moisei Ginzburg, and others found in experimental psychology, in the theory of empathy, and in philosophical monism, she has masterfully recast a fundamental chapter in the making of modernity."-Jean-Louis Cohen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University"In her Architecture of Life, Alla Vronskaya resolutely abandons usual political binaries and familiar historical dichotomies that have long straightjacketed the history of socialist modernism. Bringing together Moscow and Berlin, Bauhaus and Constructivism, form and function, individuality and collectivity, she offers a historically rich and conceptually invigorating study of one of the most original architectural experiments of the twentieth century."-Serguei A. Oushakine, Princeton University

• Introduction. Life: An Ideology for Modernity1. Space: Formalist Architectural Pedagogy at the VKhUTEMAS2. Orientation: El Lissitzky’s Evolutionist Urbanism3. Fitness: Nikolay Ladovsky’s Architectural Psychotechnics4. Process: Organicist Aesthetics of Soviet Standardization5. Energy: Soviet Wall-Painting and the Economy of Perception6. Personality: Public Park as a Factory of DealienationConclusion. History: From the Monistic to the TerrestrialAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex