Among the few writers and artists to cross the Atlantic, the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and the film director Sergei Eisenstein were the most outspoken, leaving influential writings and, in the case of the latter, undertaking productions in Hollywood. Although communications between the two countries were filtered through Weimar Germany, as diplomatic relations were not re-established until 1933, the exchange of images and ideas was intense throughout the 1920s.
After studying American grain silos, following the example of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, radical architects like Moïseï Guinzbourg based their theories of composition on the mimesis of Taylorized industry, before the principle of de-urbanism they promoted derived from their instrumental reading of Henry Ford's works, extremely popular in Russia at the time.
At the same time, the Constructivists' rivals El Lissitzky and Nikolai Ladovsky put forward their own views on skyscrapers and other types of American buildings, which shaped their readings at the Vkhoutémas.
