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[HOUSES FOR THE PROLETARIAT] Sovremennye rabochie zhilishcha : Materialy dlia proektirovaniia i planovykh predpolozhenii po stroitel’stvu zhilishch dlia rabochikh [i.e. Contemporary Workers’ Dwellings: Materials for Projecting and Planned Suggestions for Building Dwellers for Workers]

Barkhin, G.

Moscow: Voprosy truda, 1925. Item #1141

80 pp., 1 folding table. 23x15,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers with monograph MB. Restored, pale stamps of pre-war Ukrainian construction organization on the title page, pp. 13, 45, 55, 69, otherwise very good and clean copy.

First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. The wrappers designed by Mikhail Bulanov (1894-1965), a famous Soviet artist and designer, known for his work for ROSTA posters, Mosselprom, the Moscow Circus, and many other companies. He stood at the origins of the Soviet art of advertising.
Architect and art historian Grigorii Barkhin (1880-1969) was one of the key architects whose name and activities are associated with the formation of Soviet architecture. After the Civil war, Barkhin reconstructed Moscow hospitals and designed new civil constructions, including an entire working town on the outskirts of Moscow. He also designed a building for the ‘Izvestiia’ newspaper in Moscow (1925-1927). Being a member of Moscow Architectural Society, Barkhin edited its collection of competition works and yearbooks.
In the 1920s, he supported the garden city movement and published the book ‘Worker’s House and Workers’ Garden Town’ (1922). This book, as well as ‘Contemporary Workers’ Dwellings’ itself included a tendency to view a house as a part of the whole complex, connected with urban planning and environment.
This particular book was a pre-project manual for architects. Bakhrin analyzed standards of separate rooms of a dwelling (cottage, apartment house, house-commune); living buildings and civil constructions in workers’ town. He focused on the economy of different dwelling construction and highlighted the most rational types of houses for families and single workers.
Barkhin brought his principles to reconstruction of Dzerzhinsky district (20-km area in Northern Moscow) in the 1930s and the reconstruction of Sevastopol in the 1940s.

Worldcat shows no copies in the USA.

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