GEORGII KRUTIKOV. THE FLYING CITY AND BEYOND

In 1927, while a student of architecture at the Moscow Vhutemas, Georgii Krutikov presented a vision for a flying city. More than ju st a flight of architectural fancy, Krutikovs flying city was a utopian dream, a plan to solve the seemingly intractable problems o f overcrowding and resource depletion by moving humanitys living quarters to space. Inspired in equal parts by sci-fi dreams of spa ce travel and the revolutionary idealism that still percolated in the Soviet Union at that time, Krutikov created an incredible amou nt of deta...[Read more]