![Amerika. Die Stilbildung des neuen Bauens in den Vereinigten Staaten (Neues Bauen in der Welt) (America: The Development of Style in New Buildings in the United States [New Ways of Building in the World]), vol. 2](https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjIxMTE3NSJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDEwMjR4MTAyNFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=be8725df3f6b9f71)
Amerika. Die Stilbildung des neuen Bauens in den Vereinigten Staaten (Neues Bauen in der Welt) (America: The Development of Style in New Buildings in the United States [New Ways of Building in the World]), vol. 2
El Lissitzky
Russian, 1890–1941
1930
A 1930 journal cover by El Lissitzky that uses lithographed photomontage and bold letterpress typography to stage the American skyscraper as a machine-like modern icon.
At first glance it feels like a mechanical dream: layered images of high-rise facades and crisscrossing steel trusses climb the page beneath a blunt, mustard-yellow "AMERIKA," producing a dense, vertiginous skyline.
The design brought constructivist montage and typographic precision to architectural publicity, helping to internationalize modernist aesthetics and shape how the skyscraper was imagined as a symbol of progress.
Medium
Journal, lithograph and letterpress printed
Dimensions
page (each): 11 7/16 x 8 3/4" (29 x 22.3 cm); overall (closed): 11 7/16 x 8 15/16 x 3/8" (29 x 22.7 x 1 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation
Accession
363.2001
Palette
Art Terms
Exhibitions
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