Lebedev, Iurii, editor and Ivan Rerberg, design.

[SOVIET ARCHITECTURE] Voprosy arkhitektury [Current issues in architecture].

Moscow: OGIZ-IZOGIZ, 1935. Quartos (29.5 × 21.8 cm). Original printed wrappers; 207, [1] pp. Illustrated with dozens of architectural drawings, views, and photographs. Soil and toning to wrappers; spine chipped; inexpert restoration to front wrapper (closed tear); internally very good. Item #54722

A compendium of essays by leading Soviet architects and historians of architecture, documenting the arrival of Neoclassicism in Soviet architecture and the shift away from the Constructivism of the 1920s. Divided into two sections, the first section deals with classical architectural examples from ancient Egypt, Rome, Renaissance, and Early Modern architecture. The second section focuses on contemporary architectural issues, including international modernism, the design of the Moscow-Donbass highway, and worker housing. Contributors to the volume include major Constructivist architects Moisei Ginzburg, Roman Khiger, art historians Mikhail Alpatov, Nikolai Brunov, architects associated with the building of the Palace of the Soviets such as Andrei Bunin and Mikhail Polishchuk, and the head architect of Moscow, Vladimir Semenov. With dozens of illustrations throughout the text including photographs, plans, and elevations. Wrapper design by the graphic artist and poster designer Ivan Rerberg (1892–1957).

As of November 2024, KVK, OCLC show seven copies worldwide.

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