A.D. 7/8 1989 Russian Constructivism & Iakov Chernikhov is an Architectural Design theme issue edited by Catherine Cooke (AD Editions Ltd 1989). Contributions by Andrei Chernikov, Mark Khidekel, and Catherine Cooke.
Five years ago, Architectural Design published a pioneering study of the Soviet avantgardist Iakov Chernikhov. Since the publication of his famous books in the early 30s, he has been known throughout the world as the most inventive of the Soviet Architects who pursued the constructive formal logics of the machine. In that AD study, Catherine Cooke gave the first serious account of the theory and teaching methods he presented in his various books. Through further research in unpublished texts and archives by his grandson, Moscow architect Andrei Chernikhov, the full scope of this remarkable man’s work emerges as far wider, ranging from his earliest Suprematist-inspired abstraction to the Stalinist Classicism of his Palaces for Socialism. To coincide with the major travelling exhibition which Andrei Chernikhov has prepared, we devote another issue to the reassessment of Iakov Chernikhov, presenting his avant-garde work in the context of Suprematis and Constructivist architectural thinking around him, and publishing extensive amounts of hitherto unknown work for the fist time.
– Catherine Cooke (ed.), A.D. Architectural Design 59 7/8 1989 Russian Constructivism & Iakov Chernikhov (AD Editions Ltd, 1989), preface
The text is in English. The book is lavishly illustrated with black-and-white photographs, architectural drawings, and art images.
Our copy in stock is in very good condition. The pages are clean, no markings. The glueing of the binding is fine. The covers show no traces of use; there is only a narrow stripe of toning on the upper edge of the front and back covers.
