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Abc: International Constructivist Architecture, 1922-1939
Author: Ingberman, Sima
Hardback; Book; 65 B&w Illustrations, 4 Colour Illustrations
212 pages
Published: July 1994
The MIT Press
ISBN: 0262090317

Constructivism is widely thought of as a Russian phenomenon, but as Sima Ingberman shows in this first comprehensive study of the architectural group ABC, it was an influential international movement.Established in 1924, the ABC group included Mart Stam of the Netherlands, El Lissitzky of the Soviet Union, and the Swiss architects Hans Schmidt, Hannes Meyer, Hans Wittwer, Paul Artaria, Emil Roth, and Werner Moser, among others. It became the foremost constructivist network outside the Soviet Union, producing designs for buildings in, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Mexico, and the United States. Some of these, like the Van Nelle factory and the Halle Airport Restaurant, have become significant landmarks of the modern movement.Ingberman brings to light a ricStudies the constructivist architectural group ABC. The group produced designs for buildings throughout the world, some of which - like the Van Nelle factory and the Halle Airport Restaurant - have become landmarks of the modern movement.


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