Krinskii, V[ladimir] F[edorovich], I[van] Lamtsov, and M[ikhail] Turkus.

[SOVIET ARCHITECTURE – VKHUTEMAS] Elementy arkhitekturno-prostranstvennoi kompozitsii [Elements of architectural and spatial composition].

Moscow; Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Nauchno-Tekhnicheskoe izd-vo Stroitel'noi Industrii i Sudostroeniia Gosstroizdat NKTP SSSR, 1934. Quarto (29.5 × 21.5 cm). Original embossed cloth over boards; 172 pp. With 260 illustrations from photographs and drawings in the main portion of the text, including one folding plate, and 84 illustrations in an appendix. Light soil to boards, else very good. Item #54714

First edition of this classic Soviet textbook on architectural composition, co-written by VKhUTEMAS architecture department instructors Vladimir Krinskii (1890–1970), Ivan Lamtsov (1899–1990), and Mikhail Turkus (1896–1991). Illustrated with photographs, plans, models, charts, and technical material, the text offers a study of composition, proportion, and space in historical architecture and its application to concerns and issues in modern Soviet design. In the introduction, the authors note that the volume is based on the course titled “Spatial composition” developed in 1923 at VKhUTEMAS, a school often compared to the Bauhaus in its experimental drive. In the same year, Vladimir Krinskii co-founded ASNOVA (the Association of New Architects), which came to count El Lissitzky, Aleksandr Rodchenko, and Aleksandr Mel'nikov among its members, and promoted a “rationalist” approach to architecture, as well as a synthesis of architecture with other arts. The group ceased to exist in 1932, after the consolidation of all architectural groups into the Union of Soviet Architects. According to Senkevich, this text was "The first effort after the disbanding of the architectural movements to amplify the former ASNOVA theory of architectural design and composition within the framework of the new trends in Soviet architecture" (Senkevich 211). A second edition of this text would be published in 1968. One of 4000 copies.

As of February 2025, KVK, OCLC show four copies in North America.

Price: €950.00

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