 In the late 1970s Rem Koolhaas wrote a parable on the political trajectory of Constructivism called "The Story of the Pool", in which Constructivists escape from the USSR in a self-powering Modernist swimming pool, only to die, after being criticised for much the same reasons as they were under Stalinism, soon after their arrival in the USA.Meanwhile, many of the original Constructivist buildings are poorly preserved or in danger of imminent demolition.Russian Academy of Architecture.