TransliterationEl Lissitzkiy. Arkhitektura: Raboty Arkitecturnogo fakulteta Vkhutemasa, 1920-1927. Moskva: VKhUTEMAS.
In EnglishEl Lissitzky. Architecture: Works of the Architecture Faculty of VKhUTEMAS, 1920-1927. Moscow: VKhUTEMAS.
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Author: El Lissitzky
Publication Date: 1927
Publication Place: Moscow
Description: Please feel free to request a detailed description. Short description: El Lissitzky. Arkhitektura [Architecture: Works of the Architecture Faculty of VKhUTEMAS, 1920-1927]. Moscow: VKhUTEMAS, 1927. XIII, [3], 45 pp.: ill. 24,2x17,3 cm. In Russian. In publisher’s wrappers and Constructivist photomontage dust wrapper designed by El Lissitzky. Illustrated with 45 photogravures of student architectural drawings. First edition. One of 1000 copies. Very rare. Lissitzky’s picture of the hand with the slide rule with its innovative use of type is one of the most celebrated of all Constructivist designs. The school VKhUTEMAS counted among its ranks such protagonists of the Russian avant-garde as Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova, Alexander Vesnin, and Lyubov Popova, El Lissitzky and Vladimir Tatlin, Kazimir Malevich and Nikolay Ladovsky. The book presents the work of VKHUTEMAS students, renderings of factories, the Palace of Labor, communal housing and other state-sponsored projects (mostly unrealized). SKUMS002064
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