ASNOVA

The Association of New Architects [Assotsiatsiya novykh arkhitektorov] was registered in 1923 and split in 1928. In 1926, it published a single issue of ASNOVA journal edited by El Lissitzky and Nikolai Ladovsky.

Journal

ASNOVA, 1926. PDF (10 mb).

Content

• [About the ASNOVA], p. 1
  • German translation (partial) in Chan-Magamedow: Pioniere der Sowjetischen Architektur, 1983.
• El Lissitzky: A series of skyscrapers for Moscow, p. 2–3
  • German trans. in: El Lissitzky, Proun und Wolkenbügel. Schriften, Briefe, Dokumente.
• Nikolai Ladovsky: Basics of Theory Formation in Architecture (Under the Banner of Rationalist Aesthetics), p. 3–5
  • German trans. (partial) in Chan-Magamedow, Pioniere der Sowjetischen Architektur, 1983.
  • German trans. (partial) in Kirill Afanasjew, Sowjetische Architektur 1917/32. Ideen – Projekte – Bauten, p. 24–25
• Nikolai Ladovsky: Skyscrapers in the Soviet Union and America, p. 4–5
• Enael: Skyscraper for the Lubyanka Square. Project by W. Krinsky, p. 4–5
• Houses or Streets?, p. 5
• [El Lissitsky]: In Defense of the Competitors, p. 7
  • German trans. in: El Lissitzky, Proun und Wolkenbügel. Schriften, Briefe, Dokumente.
• Nikolai Ladovsky: The psycho-technical Laboratory of Architecture (A Kind of Question) p. 7
  • English trans. in: Ageros Cooke, The Avant-Garde. Russian Architecture in the Twenties, p. 26
  • German trans. (partial) in: Chan-Magamedow, Pioniere der Sowjetischen Architektur, 1983.
• El Lissitsky: Viking Eggeling, p. 7
  • German trans. in: El Lissitzky, Proun und Wolkenbügel. Schriften, Briefe, Dokumente.
• El Lissitsky: The Human is the Scale of All Tailor, p. 8
  • German trans. (partial) in: Chan-Magamedow, Pioniere der Sowjetischen Architektur, 1983.