Oshchepkov, G[rigorii] D[mitrievich].

[STALINIST NEOCLASSICISM] I. V. Zholtovskii: proekty i postroiki [projects and constructions].

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo literatury po stroitel'stvu i arkhitekture, 1955. Quarto (34 × 26 cm). Original embossed cloth over boards; 159 pp. with 122 pp. of illustrations. Lacking original dust jacket; else very good. Item #54878

An impressive monograph on Ivan Vladislavovich Zholtovskii (1869–1959), an architect who maintained adherence to Palladian ideals and motifs in the face of a profusion of avant-garde activity in the early Soviet era, becoming one of the key architects of Stalinist Neoclassicism. The volume is profusely illustrated with architectural drawings, photographs, architectural details and fragments of facades including cornices, reliefs, friezes, and columns, exemplifying the late Stalinist Neoclassicism. A lover of Renaissance architecture, Zholtovskii was fluent in Italian and published the first translation of Andrea Palladio’s collected works in Russian in 1938, with many of his own designs clearly inspired by the Renaissance architect. The introduction to this volume provides a biographical sketch of Zholtovskii, noting his participation in drawing up the General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow (receiving special instructions from Lenin), his teaching at VKhUTEMAS, and his heading the Masterskaia No.1 of Mossovet, with Constructivist architects such as Nikolai Kolli and Konstantin Mel'nikov among his students. Zholtovskii would also go on to share the first prize for the design of the Place of the Soviets with Boris Iofan, though neither design was ever actualized. Zholtovskii did leave behind over 100 buildings, with this volume focusing especially on his later designs. Senkevich 1174.

As of January 2025, KVK, OCLC show five copies worldwide, of which four in North America.

Price: €450.00

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