As I was hunting through more architecture photographs I have, I came across some pictures which from an exhibit at the MoMA a couple of years ago. They are photographs of Soviet Architecture after the 1917 October revolution, and [as far as I know] before Stalin usurped power. I find them very compelling, and a great example of how buildings can have a dialogue with the Earth.
Picture from Moscow, post-revolution. Moscow was chosen as the new capital after the revolution (the old was St. Petersburg). I believe this (and the other) designs were completed in the early-mid 1920s.
A picture of a GOELRO Electric Plant (from 1920). The plaque reads, "Lenin's famous statement that Communism is 'the power of the Soviets plus electricity' found concrete expression across the landscape of the Soviet Union."
More plants and structures, external and internal views:
Update: Managed to find
this NY Times article talking about the same exhibit.
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