Style and Epoch

Style and Epoch by Moisei Ginzburg, first published in 1924, was the architect’s key work; it became the philosophical basis for the Constructivist group of architects. This facsimile edition follows on from the successful publication of the author’s 1934 work Dwelling, also published by Ginzburg Design with Fontanka (2017). 

Architect Alexei Ginzburg is currently working on the restoration of his grandfather’s famous Narkomfin building in Moscow (completed in 1932). As part of this project, Ginzburg Design has initiated the publication, in partnership with Fontanka, of Moisei Ginzburg’s four seminal publications on architecture and the built environment. The first of these, Style and Epoch, in a new translation by John Nicolson, emphasises the civilising role of the machine and its capacity to rationalise new building types consistent with the needs of the working class. Asserting that the revolution had engendered a new constructive phase of architectural development, Ginzburg’s treatise was essentially a manifesto of Constructivism as the architectural style of the new Soviet era. 

240pp, softback, 230 x 185mm, 65 illustrations
ISBN: 978-1906257-29-3
£19.95; $30
Distributed by Thames and Hudson (Europe)
and Antique Collectors Club (North America)
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