There’s no shortage of well-designed playgrounds in the world, but far rarer is the playground built squarely for designers. So London design duo Isabel + Helen decided to make one: a sculptural swing ...

Historically, the study of cognition has focused mainly on adults. With the arrival of constructivist theoreticians such as Jean Piaget, cognitive developmental theory became more visible in ...

In a recent blog post, Kyle Pearce (@mathletepearce) raised the question “good at math or good at memorization?” Unlike most middle school math teachers, Kyle asks his students to wrestle with complex ...

The motherland of constructivist architecture, Moscow is home to many of the world’s best examples of the former hallmark Soviet style. However, many constructivist buildings such as the Narkomfin and ...

The constructivists of the 1920s and 30s combined modern engineering methods and technology with communist ideology. The World Cup city of Yekaterinburg has retained this legacy – the largest ...

In the 1920s and ‘30s, rapid industrialization of areas near Russia’s Ural Mountains led to a construction boom, particularly in the city of Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg). The legacy of that expansion ...

Moving to a new city often means missing family. To avoid this feeling of absence as much as possible, Alexandra Potapova’s client gave his parents a very special gift: He purchased them an apartment ...

A brief but intense period of design and construction in Russia from 1915-35 is examined at The Royal Academy’s Building the Revolution exhibition, writes Abigail Gliddon Soviet-era experiments in ...