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[SOVIET ARCHITECTURE ON THE EVE OF WAR: THE ONLY ISSUE OF THE ACADEMY’S COLLECTION] Akademiya Arkhitektury SSSR. Sbornik rabot [i.e. The Academy of Architecture of USSR. Collection of works]. Vol.1 [and all]

Item #2558

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe arkhitekturnoe izdatelstvo, 1940. 224 pp., ills., 25x17 cm. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Spine is chipped from the edges with loss of a few fragments. Wrapper is slightly torn, otherwise good.

Scarce. 1 of 3000 copies. Text in Russian.
First edition of the only issue of the periodical, that Academy of Architecture was planning to issue yearly, but because of the beginning of the war the project was not maintained. The idea behind this publication was to unite articles, written in the last year by members of the Academy. The sections included in this only issue are: ‘The questions of the mass construction’; ‘The textbooks of the Academy’; ‘On post-graduate courses at the Academy’; ‘Bibliograhy’. The articles itself include:
· I. Bylinkin. Typical sections of residential apartments for houses with wide buildings equipment and layout of the bathroom and kitchen;
· G. M. Martynov. Design and construction of collective farm housing;
· A. A. Korchagin. On using architectural terracotta on Gorky street in Moscow; · S.I. Kilesso. Decorative concrete in architecture;
· M.Ya. Guzburg Textbook of the history of architecture;
· V. D. Blavatsky. Ancient architecture in the northern Black Sea region
· V. L. Gromov. Doors (chapter from the prepared textbook with Architectural structures telny structures")
· D. P. Sukhov. On the production of measurement works by graduate students of the Academy of Architecture.
· E.E.Lansere. On establishing of the department of graphic design It’s unfortunate that only one issue of this Academy bulletin was printed, as there were not so many occasions, under which one could see the names of such classics as Lansere and Ginzburg in the same table of content.
The issue is supplied with illustrations in text.

Price: $950.00