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Wassili Luckhardt, Perspective Drawing for “Monument to Work”. (1920)

Under an inky night sky, a great crowd of worshippers gather around a soaring temple. Wassili Luckhardt’s drawing was first reproduced in 1920 as a tiny black and white photograph in a slim volume entitled Ruf zum Bauen (A Call to Build). Nevertheless, it became one of the most striking images of the crystal chain (Die Glasserne Kette) group of architects attached to Bruno Taut, who was fascinated by a belief in the transformative nature of glass structures upon mankind. The image was entitled, An die Freude (Monument to Work) and appears to depict a stone or concrete structure with spreading ribbed tentacles and foam-like red glass windows. The other two volumes in the volume were also by Luckhardt, similar in vein, which he called Cultbau (Cult Buildings).