Osnovy sovremennoj architektury

1931. CHERNIKHOV, Yakov. Osnovy sovremennoj architektury: eksperimental'no-issledovatel'skie raboty / J.G. Tchernikhov - Les bases de l'architecture contemporaine: essai de recherches expérimentales / J.G.Tschérnikhow - Die Grundlagen der modernen Architektur: erfahrungsmässige - experimentelle Forschungen / J.G. Tschernichow. 96 pp., illustrated with 46 photographically reproduced colour plates and numerous black and white designs. Folio, 304 x 206 mm., bound in original boards. Leningrad: Izdanie Leningradskogo Obscestva Architektorov, 1931. Second, enlarged edition (the first edition had only 5 plates). A fine copy of this rare treatise by the legendary Soviet architect Yakov Chernikhov, whose books are among the most visually striking of all Russian avant-garde books. One of the few copies we have seen that has not needed to be rebacked. Incredibly rare with OCLC listing no copies in the U.S. Getty Research Institute, Russian Modernism 129.