At the end of the 1950s, Kruschev classified any aesthetic discourse in architecture as unnecessary and immoral. The focus was on urgently needed mass housing in the sense of functional buildings with prefabricated elements. A group of avant-garde architects around Brodsky and Utkin began to develop visionary and unrealistic designs as a critique of faceless Soviet functionalism in the mid-1970s. This paper architecture was entered into competitions and exhibitions and served mainly as an act of resistance and as a visual commentary on the prevailing grievances.
