[Cover Title]: Doma-Kommuny` [Houses-Communes; Student Design Competition for Communal Housing]

KRAUSE, S. and B. Tokarev, edited by

Verlag: Kubuch / (N.T.O. Leningrad Institute of Municipal Construction), Leningrad [now Saint Petersburg], 1931

First edition. Introductory text by A. Chaldymov. Oblong quarto. Measuring 14" x 10". Text in Russian. Heavily illustrated in black and white. A printed papercovered board forms the rear panel, folded over ½" and stapled to form a spine. Ex-American Russian Institute library with their stamp on the cover. Heavy wear, printed paper that covered the lower panel with some loss, lower panel neatly strengthened in a couple of places, pages rippled, sound but good only. A remarkable 1931 Soviet document published by the N.T.O. Leningrad Institute of Municipal Construction; the full cover title reads: "Houses-Communes. Competition Materials: All-Union Interuniversity Competition for a Student House-commune; Competition of the Leningrad Council for Communal Houses for Workers. NTO of the Leningrad Institute of Communal Construction." The book shows the prize-winning entries for the two student architectural design competitions: four plans for the communal housing of 1,000 students, and nine plans for communal housing for 2,000 workers. From the brief introduction to the plans for worker housing: "The purpose of the competition is to develop a project for a collective housing complex that meets modern aspirations for socialization." Heavily illustrated with architectural drawings, a fascinating look into the process of designing housing, with the explicit intent of "restructuring" living conditions to inculcate socialist principles. Extremely uncommon. *OCLC* locates seven copies. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 559923

Bibliografische Details

Titel: [Cover Title]: Doma-Kommuny` [...
Verlag: Kubuch / (N.T.O. Leningrad Institute of Municipal Construction), Leningrad [now Saint Petersburg]
Erscheinungsdatum: 1931
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good
Auflage: 1. Auflage