77/ 457 [Russian avant-garde]. Sovremennaya Arkhitektura (Modern Architecture). Year 3, no.4/ 5. Moscow, Gosizdat, 1927, 111-156,(2)p., (photogr.) ills., layout and orig. wr. by ALEKSEI GAN, 4to.

- Two lvs. loose; sm. closed tear in upper margin throughout. Wr. restored along spine and partly along edges/ corners.

= Rowell/ Wye 815. Important periodical of the OSA (Obyedinenie Sovremennykh Arkhitektov - Union of Modern Architects), founded by members of constructivist artists' collective LEF. Among its contributors were i.a. J.J.P. Oud and Walter Gropius. This issue i.a. dealing with Ivan Leonidov's (never realized) "Lenin Institute for Librarianship" in Moscow, being his thesis project at the VKhUTEMAS Polytechnic Institute. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIX.