Strigalev, A. A., I. V. Kokkinaki

Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov: Arkhitektura moei zhizni, Tvorcheskaia kontseptsiia, Tvorcheskaia praktika [Konstantin Melnikov: The Architecture of My Life, Creative Concept, Creative Practice]

Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1985. Item #1549

311 pages + 48 leaves of illustrations; 26 cm. Series: Mir khudozhnika [The World of the Artist]. Publisher’s cloth binding. Near Fine (minimal shelfwear, clean and tight; illustrations crisp). From the library of the recognized collector of books and postcards on Russia and the Soviet Union, Marshall Winokur (with "M. Winokur" note on the endpaper).

This authoritative volume documents the creative legacy of Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov (1890–1974), one of the central figures of the Soviet avant-garde and an internationally recognized innovator of 20th-century architecture. His radical Constructivist and Rationalist designs—particularly the Soviet Pavilion at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Rusakov Workers’ Club in Moscow—redefined modern architectural aesthetics through geometric abstraction, functionality, and expressive form.

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