The volume offers a repositioning of Mel'nikov's works within the context of the Moscow of the Twenties and Thirties. It highlights his ideational (in the unrealised projects) and concrete (in those realised) contributions to the construction of contemporary Moscow through a selection of models, flanked by the original designs of the buildings, cartographic reconstructions of the city of Moscow and original photographs. The essays explore in detail Mel'nikov's biography, his professional education in the Twenties, Stuttgart's architecture school and the avant-garde (1918-1945), Mel'nikov and his dialogue with the city, Mel'nikov's project for the future city, an itinerary throughout Moscow, covered parking space, from "the house of the people" to "the school of communism", architecture for an urbanised countryside, works of the first half of the Twenties, the contexts for the "New City" and the great monuments, works from 1929 to 1932, the construction of the capital city, works from 1932 to 1936.
Format:
8 1/2 x 11 in., 312 pp., 396 b/w illus., hardback
Anul apariţiei:
1999
fond special / librărie / colecţie particulară / anticariat /
