{"product_id":"wolkenbgel-richard-anderson-9780262048781","title":"Wolkenb?el: El Lissitzky as Architect","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow a visionary, never-realized architectural project, devised by one of the twentieth century's greatest artists, shaped architectural culture in Europe between the world wars.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter achieving international acclaim as a painter and designer, El Lissitzky set out in 1924 to convince the world--and himself--that he was also an architect. He did this with a project for a \"horizontal skyscraper,\" which he gave an obscure and untranslatable name: Wolkenb?el. Eight of these buildings, perched atop slender pillars, were intended to stand at major intersections along Moscow's Boulevard Ring, integrating the flow of tramlines, subways, and elevators. In \u003ci\u003eWolkenb?el\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard Anderson explores Lissitzky's translation of visual and textual media into spatial ideas and offers an in-depth study of the surviving drawings and archival artifacts related to Lissitzky's most complex architectural proposal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book offers a new and definitive account of how Lissitzky expanded the conceptual and representational tools available to the modern architect by drawing on many sources--including photography, typography, exhibition design, and even the elementary forms of the alphabet--to create the Wolkenb?el. Anderson shows how the production and reception of a paper project served to link key ideas and relationships that animated the worlds of art and architecture, offering a new view on received histories of the interwar avant-gardes. By attending to Lissitzky's singular architectural project, Anderson reveals the dynamics of internationality in the constitution of modern architectural culture in Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Anderson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262048787\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262048781\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.60h x 9.10w x 1.50d","brand":"Richard Anderson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44761158844671,"sku":"9780262048781","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9b2051fc-2674-4025-ab30-b4196c9a65b8.jpg?v=1706680540","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wolkenbgel-richard-anderson-9780262048781","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}