"Architecture is an important source of inspiration for me. It can be just a detail of a building, its layout, or the atmosphere it creates. I was much impressed by the Tower conceived by Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953) even if it only exists as a model. Designed as "Monument to the Third International" (1919), Tatlin's design for the monument demonstrates Constructivism: art allied with engineering. Tatlin planned a monument that would be built according to completely new architectural principles and from completely new architectural forms.
Seen by its creator as a way of uniting purely artistic forms with utilitarian intentions, Tatlin's monument took the form of a soaring, 400-meter high spiral of cast iron that was to straddle the River Neva in the center of Petrograd. To celebrate the dynamism of the revolutionary society that was taking shape in Russia, steel cables were to suspend a cube, a pyramid, and a cylinder within the upturned spiral, each being made of glass and steel and designed to revolve at speeds regulated by whether the agencies they housed met once a day, once a month, or once a year". - Martin Frei
Nasa Spaceship
Metropolis by Fritz Lang (1927)
Sculpture by Joseph Beuys
Tatlin Tower