1096 - Avant-garde - Russia - Milyutin, Nikolai A. Problems of Building Socialist Cities. Fundamental Questions of Rational Planning and Construction of Settlements in the USSR. (Problems of Building Socialist Cities. Fundamental Questions Regarding Rationality in the Planning and Construction of Settlements in the USSR). Constructivist book design (likely from the Malevich circle, with clear Suprematist references). Includes 1 color plate as well as numerous (some full-page) photographic and schematic illustrations. Moscow and Leningrad, Gosizdat, 1930. 82 pp., 1 leaf. 23.5 x 27 cm. Original cloth binding with colored and silver title embossing (partially water-stained, dusty).

Avant-garde - Russia - Milyutin, Nikolai A. Problems of Building Socialist Cities. Fundamental Questions of Rational Planning and Construction of Settlements in the USSR. (Problems of Building Socialist Cities. Fundamental Questions Regarding Rationality in the Planning and Construction of Settlements in the USSR). Constructivist book design (likely from the Malevich circle, with clear Suprematist references). Includes 1 color plate as well as numerous (some full-page) photographic and schematic illustrations. Moscow and Leningrad, Gosizdat, 1930. 82 pp., 1 leaf. 23.5 x 27 cm. Original cloth binding with colored and silver title embossing (partially water-stained, dusty). First edition. — One of the first and arguably the best-known of the early monographs on socialist urban planning. Featured are projects by Soviet architects as well as those of the Bauhaus and works by Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe (including an illustration of the “Glass Skyscraper”), and others from the period of the country’s rapid industrialization. - As is usually the case, the dust jacket is missing. - Slightly browned due to the paper, staples rusted; otherwise a good copy.