Halftone engravings printed in colour. First edition. 4to., 30 x 22cm, 102pp, plus 101 plates. Original publisher's black cloth. Leningrad, Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga, 1933, 1933.
Good, covers rubbed and bumped at extremities, with small tear to cloth of upper cover towards joint, spine faded, vertical crease to ffep. running full length of the page, c. final ten pages with crease to lower corner of text block. Ink booksellers' stamp with pencilled price to final page.
Tchernykhov's sixth and final book, and his masterpiece of imagined architecture. For Tchernykhov, the radical and fantastical was an essential step in imagining the architecture of the future; "Not without reason, however, have great thinkers of all times accorded vast importance to fantasy, as being the forerunner of any kind of progress" explains Tchernykhov in his introduction.
Architectural Fictions, Tchernykhov's most important work, presents 101 imaginary cities and constructions rendered in beautiful and accomplished colour prints, which strike us today as both elegant and shockingly futuristic for their time.
