Zodchii
Zodchii
Former Russian architectural periodical
Zodchii (Russian: Зодчий, pre-1918 spelling: Зодчій, lit. 'The Architect') was a Russian architectural periodical published in Saint Petersburg from 1872 to 1924.
Zodchii Vol. 5, No. 1 (1876) | |
| Editor | Ivan Merts |
|---|---|
| Editor | Nicolas de Rochefort |
| Editor | Leon Benois |
| Editor | Victor Ewald |
| Categories | Architecture |
| Frequency | Monthly 1872-1881; bi-monthly 1882; 2 issues 1883; single special issue in 1884; monthly 1885 through 1891; weekly 1902-1917; monthly January-February 1918; publication suspended March 1918-1923; single issue in 1924 |
| Founded | 1872 |
| Final issue | 1924 |
| Country | Russian Empire, Soviet Union |
| Based in | Saint Petersburg / Petrograd / Leningrad |
| Language | Russian |
Zodchii was the official organ of the Saint Petersburg (later: Petrograd) Society of Architects and was an important pre-revolutionary Russian architectural periodical.[1] First published in 1872, it appeared monthly (between 1902 and December 1917 weekly) through February 1918. A single issue followed in 1924.[2][3] A weekly supplement, Nedelia Stroitelia (Builders' Weekly), was published from 1881 until 1903.
Zodchii published articles on architecture, the history of architecture, and construction technology, book and exhibitions reviews, reports on professional meetings of the Society of Architects, as well as "information on technical innovations in Western Europe and the United States."[4] Since 1872, it ran a regular column on construction in the United States.[5]
Among the editors of Zodchii were the engineers and architects Ivan Merts (from 1872 to 1875), Nicolas de Rochefort (from 1878 to 1881), and Leon Benois (from 1892 to 1895), and the engineer, architect, cellist, and composer Victor Ewald (from 1910 to 1924).[6]
- Brumfield, William Craft (1991). The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture. Berkeley; Los Angeles; Oxford: University of California Press. p. 47. ISBN 9780520069299.
By the beginning of the twentieth century the architectural press had expanded far beyond Zodchii [...]. To be sure, Zodchii remained the single most important source of information for the profession [...].
- "Zodchii". National Library of Russia. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- "Zodchii". Canadian Centre for Architecture. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
- Brumfield, William Craft (1995). Reshaping Russian Architecture: Western Technology, Utopian Dreams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 44. ISBN 9780521394185.
- Cohen, Jean-Louis (2020). Building a New New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture. Montreal/New Haven: Canadian Centre for Architecture/Yale University Press. p. 51. ISBN 9780300248159.
- Klähn, Tim (2021). "Russian and East European Books, Journals, Photographs, and Archival Materials at the Canadian Centre for Architecture". Slavic & East European Information Resources. 22 (3–4): 311. doi:10.1080/15228886.2021.2018248.