Item #54715 [ALBERT KAHN IN THE USSR — CONSTRUCTIVIST INDUSTRIAL ARCHITECTURE] Sovremennaia fabrichno-zavodskaia arkhitektura [Contemporary factory and industrial architecture]. Tsvetaev, artist Boris Titov, ladimir, mitrievich.

Tsvetaev, V[ladimir] D[mitrievich] and Boris Titov, artist.

[ALBERT KAHN IN THE USSR — CONSTRUCTIVIST INDUSTRIAL ARCHITECTURE] Sovremennaia fabrichno-zavodskaia arkhitektura [Contemporary factory and industrial architecture].

Moscow; Leningrad: Gosstroiizdat, 1933. Quarto (31 × 23.5 cm). Original embossed cloth over boards; 530 pp. With 635 drawings in the text. Spine lightly rubbed, corners and wrapper extremities lightly bumped and scuffed; lacking the dust jacket; else about very good. Item #54715

Second expanded and re-worked edition of this compendium on Soviet factory and industrial architecture, with 635 technical illustrations, plans, and photographs in the text, by the Constructivist architect and innovator of industrial architecture Vladimir Tsvetaev (1891–1947). The text is divided into sections on various types of industrial buildings, as well as building elements such as walls, roofs, overpasses, lighting, staircases, prefabricated constructions, floors, doors, gates etc. In the introduction, the author promises an overview of the newest methods in industrial construction achieved during the first five-year plan in 1928–1932, with this text intended as a kind of manual or textbook for those in the building profession. During this period Tsvetaev worked closely with the American architect Albert Kahn whose firm opened a design and training bureau in the Soviet Union during the Great Depression in 1929, consulting in the design of over 500 Soviet factories during the first five-year plan. This text reflects the experience gained during this Soviet-American collaboration. Tsvetaev also taught at the Moscow Polytechnic University in this period, producing this and other instruction publications. Today, he is best remembered for his Constructivist buildings such as the top section of the famous “Mosselprom” building (1923–1925) and the “Ptitsevodsoiuz” building (1928–1929). The binding, dust jacket and title page design for this edition are by the Constructivist graphic artist Boris Titov (1897–1951).

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