{"product_id":"wolkenb-gel-el-lissitzky-as-architect","title":"Wolkenb?gel: 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: Wolkenbügel. 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\u003eWolkenbügel\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 Wolkenbügel. 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Anderson is Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Edinburgh. He is the editor of Ludwig Hilberseimer's \u003ci\u003eMetropolisarchitecture and Selected Essays\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eRussia: Modern Architectures in History\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50401392722194,"sku":"9780262048781","price":71.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_682bebff-808a-4401-8288-2ed8be673b3f.jpg?v=1729133303","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wolkenb-gel-el-lissitzky-as-architect","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}