VKHUTEMAS IN THE PROCESS OF FORMING DESIGN IN THE POST-SOVIET SPACE

Abstract

The article presents the influence of the first «design school» – Higher Art and Technical Studios (VKHUTEMAS) on the formation of design in the post-Soviet space. The structure of VKHUTEMAS is also presented, the semantic content of its preparatory and educational concept from the point of view of some theorists of that time is considered, as well as their attempts to find a synthesis between art, labor and manufactured products. All these processes are reflected in the «industrial art», which can be considered as a kind of proto-design of the XXI century.