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Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Vsesoiuznoi Akademii arkhitektury, 1934-1937. Quartos (29.5 × 25.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 40-48 pp. Illustrations throughout including plans, photographs, technical drawings, elevations. Title page in Russian, French, and English. Light soil and discoloration to wrappers; chipping to pine; about good or better. Three issues of this bi-monthly journal focused on European and American architecture for Soviet audiences, published 1934-1937. The program of the journal was described in the first issue: "Architecture Abroad will pay special attention to technical issues of architecture. The experience of European and American architecture in this area can give us much of value. Our journal does not limit itself to informational purposes alone. It will critically analyze the architectural practice of the capitalist world, highlight its decadent tendencies and extract the progressive and potentially valuable elements that exist in this practice from the point of view of the tasks of Soviet architecture." The present issues include articles on the construction of the Empire State building and the Chrysler building in New York, an overview of movie theatre architecture across Europe and the United States, the design and architecture of kindergartens in Austria, Switzerland, France and Germany, the newest developments in door and window mechanisms, an overview of open-air theatres and surrounding garden architecture, garage construction, as well as the Nazification of German architecture in 1935. The architect Iosif Fridliand (1898-1937) was the head editor of the journal. A student of the Vesnin Brothers at the Moscow State Technical University, Fridliand was the founding editor of this journal in 1934. In 1935 he was named the head architect of the Moscow-Volga channel, one of the key Stalinist construction projects of the 1930s. In 1937 he would fall victim to Stalinist purges. The journal ceased to exist with Fridliand's arrest and execution. As of February 2025, KVK, OCLC show scattered issues at six institutions in North America.