The Flying City conceptualized by Georgy Krutikov
Georgii Krutikov, who was a young Soviet architect, presented a thesis project which was so utopian for his time, but not for Soviet avant-garde architecture. Krutikov presented his project ?The City of the Future? as his graduation thesis in 1928. It is telling that Krutikov called his project a quest. It was a quest for mobile architecture. Krutikov?s project was as much a child of its age as Tatlin?s machines and Khlebnikov?s city-plants. Just like these artists, Krutikov was fascinated by movement and flexibility.

From Jean-Louis Cohen?s The Future of Architecture since 1889 (2012):
‘Certain thesis projects still explored radical hypotheses for public buildings. Ivan Leonidov designed a Lenin Institute(1927) with a prophetic structure made of cables and futuristic electronic technology; Georgii Krutikov designed a Flying City(1928). After visiting the Vkhutemas in 1928, Le Corbusier described the school in his journal as an ?extraordinary demonstration of the modern credo,? adding: ?Here a new world is being rebuilt? out of a ?mystique which gives rise to a pure technique.’
Krutikov proposed that the city would be suspended in the air by some kind of atomic energy?he?s a little iffy on the details?and people would travel from the surface to the airborne residential pods in a ?cabin,? a kind of space capsule that was capable of traveling through the air, on the ground, and underwater. The cabin would be eq...