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[RAILWAY STATIONS] Arkhitektura zheleznodorozhnykh vokzalov [i.e. The Architecture of Railway Stations]

YAVEIN, Igor G.

Item #2891

Moscow: Vsesoiuznoe izdatelstvo arkhitektury, 1938. 302, [2] pp.: ill., plans, drawings. 26×18 cm [10 1/4×7 1/8 in.]. Original publisher’s blue cloth. Binding slightly soiled, corners bumped, Soviet library stamps otherwise a good copy.

First edition.
Igor Georgievich Yavein (1903–1980) was a Soviet architect, architectural theorist, and one of the leading specialists in transport architecture. More than 100 railway stations were built to his designs, including projects in Veliky Novgorod, Kursk, Latvia, and Kazakhstan. In March 1932 he participated in the All-Union competition for the reconstruction of Moscow’s Kursk railway station. After the Second World War he developed a series of railway-station projects for Kazakhstan, Novgorod, and Kursk. In 1963 he defended his doctoral dissertation, Issues in the Design of Railway Stations, and from 1969 headed the Department of Architecture at the Leningrad Institute of Railway Transport Engineers, where he worked until his death.
The present book is Yavein’s major early theoretical study of railway-station architecture. It considers the station not as an isolated building, but as part of a larger transport system: the planning of the station square, connections with different forms of urban transport, passenger circulation, the functional grouping of interior spaces, and the organization of platforms and service areas.
The volume is extensively documented with architectural drawings, plans, diagrams, and photographs, allowing Yavein to compare different station types and planning solutions. Its particular interest lies in the combination of architectural theory with practical transport planning, a subject that would remain central to his career and later doctoral work.

Worldcat shows one copy in the USA (University of Illinois).

Status: On Hold