can you name any of his creations?
He proposed and developed the idea of horizontal skyscrapers
El Lissitzky
In 1923–1925, Lissitzky proposed and developed the idea of horizontal skyscrapers ("Wolkenbügel", "cloud-hangers", "sky-hangers" or "sky-hooks").
who is el lissitzky? He was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. where was he born? Pochinok, southeast of Smolensk, former Russian Empire
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El Lissitzky [SEP] Horizontal skyscrapers
In 1923–1925, Lissitzky proposed and developed the idea of horizontal skyscrapers ("Wolkenbügel", "cloud-hangers", "sky-hangers" or "sky-hooks"). A series of eight such structures was intended to mark the major intersections of the Boulevard Ring in Moscow. Each "Wolkenbügel" was a flat three-story, 180-meter-wide L-shaped slab raised 50 meters above street level. It rested on three pylons (10×16×50 meters each), placed on three different street corners. One pylon extended underground, doubling as the staircase into a proposed subway station; two others provided shelter for ground-level tram stations. Lissitzky argued that as long as humans cannot fly, moving horizontally is natural and moving vertically is not.