In the courtyard of the Museum of Architecture, a new installation has been unveiled. Its creators, Sergey Kuznetsov and Ivan Grekov – co-author with the chief architect of Moscow on the Lomonosov cluster building – realized this project with the help of the KROST company, which also built Kuznetsov’s “Russian Ideal House” in Nikola-Lenivets.

Here’s how the installation came to be. Sergey Kuznetsov visited the “Falconnier. Architecture of Light” exhibition and was inspired – he decided to create an art object from octagonal glass pieces salvaged by museum staff during the renovation of the State Archive building on Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street. This event sparked the history of the exhibition, the catalog, and even the project to revive the technology of Falconnier glass bricks by the St. Petersburg company NWGlass.lab. The octagonal glass pieces, which were common in Russia, were partly preserved by the museum, while the rest were simply stored, with no clear plan for their use. A year ago, a small installation using these glass pieces was created at the exhibition, displayed on the vault on the second floor of the Ruin Wing.

Here’s the exhibition installation, and to the right, a frame from a video showing workers smashing the bricks with hammers: