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[FUTURISTIC SCHOOLS] Proekty zdanii dlia uchrezhdenii sotsial’nogo vospitaniya [i.e. Designs of Buildings for Social Education]

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1930. Item #373

125, [2] pp.: ill. 36x26 cm. In original oversized wrappers. Very good. Some restoration of the wrappers, slightly rubbed and age toned, ink stains. Owner’s ink stamp on the t.p. (from the books of famous Soviet architect Leonid Grinshpun (1906-1981)).

First and only edition. One of 4000 copies. Very rare. Constructivist wrapper designed by P.V. Pomazanov.
This edition is dedicated to problems of construction of education centers - schools, orphanages, after-school institutions. It examines current state and problems of school buildings, organizing design and construction works, future plans and perspectives, pedagogical requirements, norms and tasks for the design of institutions. The programs is accompanied with typical designs of school buildings: schools in villages (version in wood and stone), national schools and boarding national schools, teachers’ houses, seven-year school, school for kolkhoz youth, dormitory, factory seven-year school, ten-year school, workshops, sport yards, gym.
The most curious program and design for children’s educational combine (kombinat). A very unusual name for a school which basically was a typical at the time of publishing. All other designs belong to futuristic Socialistic cities as they called in the edition.
A very interesting collection of materials on schools which never were built and remained plans and designs.

Worldcat locates a copy in Columbia.

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