El Lissitzky - ASNOVA - 1926
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El Lissitzky's ASNOVA is a 1926 Russian-language reprint with 8 unpaginated pages, a soft cover, and measures 30 × 21 cm in very good condition.
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Reprint: ASNOVA, El Lissitzky - ASNOVA - Moscow, Asnova, 1926 - unpaginated, (8) pp - with cover - 32.4 x 23.5 cm - condition: fine
ASNOVA (Russian: АСНОВА; abbreviation for Russian: АСсоциация НОВых Архитекторов, Association of New Architects) was an avant-garde architectural association in the Soviet Union, active in the 1920s and early 1930s, commonly called 'the Rationalists'........ The group received a boost when El Lissitzky became a proponent in the mid-1920s, designing the one issue of the journal ASNOVA News in 1926.
In addition Konstantin Melnikov, then as now the most famous Soviet Modernist architect, was a member of the group at one point,[4] preferring its concentration on affect and intuition to the OSA's scientific precision: although he and Ilya Golosov would form a 'centre' group between ASNOVA and OSA. Berthold Lubetkin, better known for his work in London, was also an early associate of the group. The 1928 'flying city' of Georgy Krutikov was an ASNOVA project that was both famous and notorious for its Utopianism,... (source: Wikipedia) (reprint TH-Delft 1969, Department of Architecture)
Reprint: ASNOVA, El Lissitzky - ASNOVA - Moscow, Asnova, 1926 - unpaginated, (8) pp - with cover - 32.4 x 23.5 cm - condition: fine
ASNOVA (Russian: АСНОВА; abbreviation for Russian: АСсоциация НОВых Архитекторов, Association of New Architects) was an avant-garde architectural association in the Soviet Union, active in the 1920s and early 1930s, commonly called 'the Rationalists'........ The group received a boost when El Lissitzky became a proponent in the mid-1920s, designing the one issue of the journal ASNOVA News in 1926.
In addition Konstantin Melnikov, then as now the most famous Soviet Modernist architect, was a member of the group at one point,[4] preferring its concentration on affect and intuition to the OSA's scientific precision: although he and Ilya Golosov would form a 'centre' group between ASNOVA and OSA. Berthold Lubetkin, better known for his work in London, was also an early associate of the group. The 1928 'flying city' of Georgy Krutikov was an ASNOVA project that was both famous and notorious for its Utopianism,... (source: Wikipedia) (reprint TH-Delft 1969, Department of Architecture)
Details
Number of books
1
Subject
Architecture
Book title
ASNOVA
Author/ Illustrator
El Lissitzky
Condition
Fine
Publication year oldest item
1926
Height
30 cm
Edition
Reprint
Width
21 cm
Language
Russian
Original language
Yes
Publisher
ASNOVA
Binding/ Material
Softback
Number of pages
8
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