Richard Anderson, University of Edinburgh, present his new book in the OCCAS Higher Seminar:

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. Working in relative physical isolation as he received treatment for tuberculosis, Lissitzky engaged in an international image trade that put reproductions of recent architecture from the Soviet Union into widespread circulation and which disseminated two of his own projects: the Speaker’s Tribune (1920-24) and a design for a horizontal skyscraper, named “Wolkenbügel.” This presentation explores the materiality of reproduction in Lissitzky’s architectural images – from drawing to photographic plate, to print, to exhibition panel, to book.