1109 - Avantgarde - Russia - Sovremennaya arhitektura. Contemporary Architecture. L'architecture contemporaine. Issue 6, 1930. Constructivist cover design by Solomon Telingater, with numerous illustrations—some in full color and spanning an entire page—as well as one mounted, multi-folded plan. Moscow, General Administration of Scientific Institutes and State Publishing House, 1930. 16 leaves, 30.5 x 23 cm. Illustrated original paperback (with a small dealer’s stamp and note on the reverse).

Avantgarde - Russia - Sovremennaya arhitektura. Contemporary Architecture. L'architecture contemporaine. Issue 6, 1930. Constructivist cover design by Solomon Telingater, with numerous illustrations—some in full color and spanning an entire page—as well as one mounted, multi-folded plan. Moscow, General Administration of Scientific Institutes and State Publishing House, 1930. 16 leaves, 30.5 x 23 cm. Illustrated original paperback (with a small dealer’s stamp and note on the reverse). First edition. — Anniversary issue, devoted throughout to the discussion of new forms of housing, as documented in the annual report of the Socialist Housing Construction Section of the Construction Sector of Gosplan (State Planning Commission under the Council of Labor and Defense of the RSFSR). Features anonymized, illustrated articles on the following project types: dormitories, family collectives, cooperative housing, and individual apartments. - The note on the cover title may refer to the well-known Azerbaijani artist Rüstam Mustafaev, whose works from the early 1930s show strong Constructivist influences. - Slightly browned. *