Wolkenbügel: El Lissitzky as Architect

by Richard Anderson

How a visionary, never-realized architectural project, devised by one of the twentieth century's greatest artists, shaped architectural culture in Europe between the world wars.

After achieving international acclaim as a painter and designer, El Lissitzky set out in 1924 to convince the world--and himself--that he was also an architect. He did this with a project for a "horizontal skyscraper," which he gave an obscure and untranslatable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262048787
• ISBN13: 9780262048781
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 9.1" x 11.6"