Machine and Social Ideal:A Logical Analysis of the Constructivist Functional Method from Moisei Ginzburg
In the 1920s,in the face of the alternations between old and new styles and the debate between art and technology,Ginzburg proposed an architectural design method integrating social ideal and machine——"functional method",which became a convergence and important connection point of various avant-garde thoughts in the architectural ontology domain.However,due to the intervention of political factors,the functional meth-od was once in a state of aphasia in the theoretical research of architectural history.This paper will start from the historical and time characteristics of the functional method,explore the source of its thought and focus on its ma-chine model,which aims at social ideal and is internalized in the logic of mechanical production,and reveal its important foundation role for constructivist architectural theory and modernist rational design method.