Achitecture from Michael Fagan Fine Art & Rare Books

Oblong octavo 30x20.5 cm., wrappers, 61 (1) pp. A technical manual of construction for larger building projects. Constructivist photomontage cover and page design unattributed, likely the author. Published under the auspices of the Workers and Peasants Inspectorate, many of the construction and design elements would be utilized in Soviet Neoclassic architecture. OCLC locates one holding worldwide (Columbia). 700

Large quarto 41x29.5 cm., (1) 15 of 16 plates of original lithographs with sheet backing, stamped Werke No. 51 (The publisher issued a number of folios at this time of decorative designs), in the original 1/2-cloth folio cover. Bruno Mauder (1877-1948) was a glass designer who was the Technical Director for glass industry and wood carving at Zwiesel from 1909.… Read more about this item

Quarto 29.5x19.5 cm., wrappers, (126) pp. Published by the Association of Architecture Students at the Warsaw University of Technology, A possible annual from the school divided in three parts; Architecture, graphic design, painting and photography, and various aspects of competitions, awards, special mentions and life of students in the school. It features projects for large scale, commercial, residential buildings and… Read more about this item

Issues quarto, generally 30.5x23 cm. Stroitel'stvo Moskvy is a significant document of soviet architecture and design for the era. Issues through the mid-1930s employed bold typographic experiments and page design. It also became a forum for urban planning, mass housing and monumental construction, in theory and practice, between leading architects, engineers and thinkers (e.g., Moisei Ginzburg, Anatoly Lunacharsky). During the… Read more about this item

Issues quarto, generally 30.5x23 cm. Stroitel'stvo Moskvy is a significant document of soviet architecture and design for the era. Issues through the mid-1930s employed bold typographic experiments and page design. It also became a forum for urban planning, mass housing and monumental construction, in theory and practice, between leading architects, engineers and thinkers (e.g., Moisei Ginzburg, Anatoly Lunacharsky). During the… Read more about this item

Moscow in Construction was an architectural and design journal published from 1924 to 1941. All issues quarto, generally 30.5x23 cm. Stroitel'stvo Moskvy is a significant document of soviet architecture and design for the era. Issues through the mid-1930s employed bold typographic experiments and page design. It also became a forum for urban planning, mass housing and monumental construction, in theory… Read more about this item

Quartos, generally 30x23 cm., bound and in wrappers, various paginations. Editors include Zdeněk Wirth, Otokar Novotný, Pavel Janák, Vilém Dvořák inter alia. All the editorial staff throughout its life were working architects. From its inception, Styl was a major architecture and design journal, engaging the pioneering architects of the Secessionist and Czech Cubist period through Rondo-cubism, experimental trials and into… Read more about this item

All quartos 30x23 cm., ca. 5000 copies. Sovetskaia arkhitektura was a preeminent architectural journal for its life of four years, spearheading the most advanced ideas in Constructivist building and urban design. Each number includes an essay by Miliutin. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Miliutin (1889-1942) was an architect and Bolshevik activist. He was very influential in developing Soviet architectural and urban design, as… Read more about this item

All quartos 30x23 cm., ca. 5000 copies. Sovetskaia arkhitektura was a preeminent architectural journal for its life of four years, spearheading the most advanced ideas in Constructivist building and urban design. Each number includes an essay by Miliutin. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Miliutin (1889-1942) was an architect and Bolshevik activist. He was very influential in developing Soviet architectural and urban design, as… Read more about this item

(Moscow Under Reconstruction, an Album of Diagrams, Topograms, and Photography of the Reconstruction of the City of Moscow) Square Quarto 33.4x34 cm., embossed cloth, 256pp., profusely illustrated with maps, foldouts, and visual schematics. Text by Viktor Shklovskii, art and book design by Aleksandr Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova. Photography by Georgii Zelma, Georgii Pretrusov, E. Langman, Ia.Khalip, E. Baldyrev. Includes plans and… Read more about this item

Quartos 30x23.5 cm., wrappers. The premier architectural journal, edited by the Association of Contemporary Architects which emerged from the hothouse of Vkhutemas and Inkhuk; they were committed to the constructivist vision with a sense of continuity from the past. It can be considered to be the most important architecture journal to be issued in the USSR in its day. Edited… Read more about this item

Quartos 30x23.5 cm., wrappers. The premier architectural journal, edited by the Association of Contemporary Architects which emerged from the hothouse of Vkhutemas and Inkhuk; they were committed to the constructivist vision with a sense of continuity from the past. It can be considered to be the most important architecture journal to be issued in the USSR in its day. Edited… Read more about this item

Quartos 30x23.5 cm., wrappers. The premier architectural journal, edited by the Association of Contemporary Architects which emerged from the hothouse of Vkhutemas and Inkhuk; they were committed to the constructivist vision with a sense of continuity from the past. It can be considered to be the most important architecture journal to be issued in the USSR in its day. Edited… Read more about this item

Quartos 30x23.5 cm., wrappers. The premier architectural journal, edited by the Association of Contemporary Architects which emerged from the hothouse of Vkhutemas and Inkhuk; they were committed to the constructivist vision with a sense of continuity from the past. It can be considered to be the most important architecture journal to be issued in the USSR in its day. Edited… Read more about this item

Quarto 35x27.5 cm., wrappers. pp. 111-158. The premier architectural journal, edited by the Association of Contemporary Architects which emerged from the hothouse of Vkhutemas and Inkhuk; they were committed to the constructivist vision with a sense of continuity from the past. It can be considered to be the most important architecture journal to be issued in the USSR in its… Read more about this item

Quarto 26.8x20 cm., wrappers, 94, xxiv pp., 13 plates with tissue guards. Cover and catalogue design by Aleksandr Rodchenko, who won the silver medal for the maquette. The catalogue includes more traditional arts and crafts, but with Rodchenko at the helm for the show work was included by Lebedev, Sternberg, Arkin, Altman, Vesnin, and a host of others. With Constructivist… Read more about this item

Large quarto 32.5x25 cm., wrappers, 52 (12) pp. Cover design by A. Vesninm 2000 copies. Contributors include Moise Ginzburg, A.V. Shchusev, S. Shervinskii, I. Rila, P. Ettinger, and S. Lifshits. This journal was the official organ of the Moscow Architectural Society (MAO). Vesin's cover design for this number came under attack by Mir Iskusstva critic Ivan Grabar as "a disaster…consisting… Read more about this item

Large quarto 30.5x23 cm., stiff wrappers, pp. 87-110. 1500 copies, The most important architecture journal to be issued in the USSR. Edited from 1926 by Aleksandr Vesnin and Moisei Ginsburg. With an international scope, it showcased the most important building projects in the USSR and documented many important contemporary architects and theoreticians working there, while keeping its readership abreast of… Read more about this item

Large quarto 30.5x23 cm., stiff wrappers, pp. 87-110. 1500 copies, The most important architecture journal to be issued in the USSR. Edited from 1926 by Aleksandr Vesnin and Moisei Ginsburg. With an international scope, it showcased the most important building projects in the USSR and documented many important contemporary architects and theoreticians working there, while keeping its readership abreast of… Read more about this item

(The Foundations of Modern Architecture. Experimental Research Works) Quarto 28x22 cm., wrappers, 123 (4) pp., illustrated throughout with five color plates. Iakov Chernikhov (1889-1951) was a visionary designer, and produced the most original design work in the USSR. He taught widely throughout his career and produced an enormous amount of work in the studio, none of which was built. The… Read more about this item