Architecture of the NKTP sanatorium in Kislovodsk / M.Y. Ginzburg.

Main entry:

Ginzburg, M. I︠A︡. (Moiseĭ I︠A︡kovlevich), 1892-1946, author, architect.

Title & Author:

Architecture of the NKTP sanatorium in Kislovodsk / M.Y. Ginzburg.

Edition:

English edition.

Publication:

[London] : Ginzburg Design : Fontanka Publications, 2019.
©2019

Description:

85 pages : illustrations, plans ; 29 cm

Notes:
Facsimile reproduction of the Russian language original, published in 1940.
Translated from the Russian by John Nicholson.
Dust jacket.
Translated from the Russian.

Summary:

The NKTP (People's Commissariat for Heavy Industry) Sanatorium was commissioned in 1934 by Grigory Ordzhonikidze, one of Stalin's closest allies and head of the Commissariat for Heavy Industry (he committed suicide after falling out with Stalin in 1937, the year of the sanatorium's completion). Despite the prevailing ideology that sought to outlaw modernism in favour of Stalinist neoclassicism, architect Moisei Ginzburg, with a team that included Ivan Leonidov, Evgeny Popov and Nikolai Paliudov, succeeded in creating an architectural ensemble that essentially retained its modernist integrity -- and today remains a masterpiece of 1930s modernism -- while making only minor concessions to the new Stalinist orthodoxy. In the early Soviet period, Kislovodsk in the northern Caucasus became known as a center for health spas and sanatoria -- 'palaces of health for the workers'. Ginzburg's sanatorium still functions as a therapy center, and retains many of its original features, including windows, light fixtures, some of the furniture etc. This first English-language publication of the original book documenting its creation is an important addition to the Ginzburg canon.

Biographical note:

Moisei Yakovlevich Ginzburg was a Soviet constructivist architect.

ISBN:

9781906257309 (hardcover)
1906257302 (hardcover)

Subject:

Soviet Union. Narodnyĭ komissariat ti︠a︡zheloĭ promyshlennosti Buildings.
Sanatoriums Russia (Federation) Kislovodsk Design and construction.
Hospital architecture Russia (Federation) Kislovodsk.
Architecture and society Russia (Federation) Kislovodsk.
Architecture hospitalière Russie Kislovodsk.
Architecture et société Russie Kislovodsk.
Architecture and society
Buildings
Hospital architecture
Russia (Federation) Kislovodsk

Form/genre:

Facsimiles (reproductions)
facsimiles (reproductions)
Facsimiles
Fac-similés.

Added entries:

Nicholson, John (Translator), translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307813
Call No.: BIB 253293
Status: Available

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