Ginzburg, Moisei Iakovlevich, editor and A[leksandr] Vesnin (wrapper design).

[RARE CONSTRUCTIVIST ARCHITECTURAL JOURNAL] Arkhitektura: ezhemesiachnik, no. 1–2 (of two issues published, the other being a triple issue 3–5).

Moscow: Moskovskoe arkhitekturnoe obshchestvo, 1923. Quarto (32.5 × 25.2 cm). Original printed wrappers 50, [14] pp. Wrappers lightly soiled and chipped along edges; non-professional restoration to spine and lower right corner. About good or better. Item #54717

A single volume (double issue) of a short-lived journal of the Moscow Architectural Society (MAO), with Constructivist wrappers by one of the masters of Constructivist architecture and theatre design, Aleksndr Vesnin (1883–1959), illustrated with numerous photographs, plans, and elevations. Founded in 1867, the Society continued to operate after the Bolshevik Revolution, led by prominent architect Aleksei Shchusev in 1922–1930. An introductory statement by Shchusev opens this first issue of the journal: “Our journal must cover most fully all the questions that concern us, from general philosophical and architectural problems, and ending with the basics of everyday life, from questions of abstract form to elements of composition and construction." Moisei Ginzburg, another major Soviet Constructivist, acted as the head editor of the new journal, contributing an extensive essay from the editor on industrial architecture of the United States. Other contributors to the volume include the art critic and collector Pavel Ettinger, architect Ivan Rylskii, and art historian Sergei Shervinskii, among others. Typical for NEP (New Economic Policy) publications, the volume closes with 12 pages of advertising of building materials, construction companies, and other services and products related to architecture and design. From the library of architect A. V. Ikonnikov.

As of February 2025, KVK, OCLC show holdings at four institutions in North America.

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