Town and Revolution; Soviet Architecture and City Planning 1917-1935
- New York: George Braziller, 1970
New York: George Braziller, 1970. First American Edition. Oblong Quarto. 22cm x 26cm. Publisher's cream colored heavy grain coth, titled in black and red to the spine. Dustjacket. 273pp. Very light marginal wear, mostly some faint soiling in places, otherwise the binding is crisp, strong, and clean; internally clean, with some isolated rippling to the rear pastedown, illustrated throughout; the dustjacket is strong and bright with some light soiling and discoloration of the laminate around the edges. A very good, clean copy.
Kopp's coherent argument, backed up by architectural and artistic knowledge, was that the early years of architectural innovation in post-revolutionary Russia originated not in a cribbing from other European schools and eras, but from a desire to completely reshape architecture and design into the service of the Soviet; essentially the creation from the ground up of an entirely new school of thought, one that was primarily concerned with the manner in which all forms of conscious design might be pressed into revolutionary service for the benefit of the nation.
Kopp's coherent argument, backed up by architectural and artistic knowledge, was that the early years of architectural innovation in post-revolutionary Russia originated not in a cribbing from other European schools and eras, but from a desire to completely reshape architecture and design into the service of the Soviet; essentially the creation from the ground up of an entirely new school of thought, one that was primarily concerned with the manner in which all forms of conscious design might be pressed into revolutionary service for the benefit of the nation.