Alexander Vesnin | |
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Born | May 28, 1883 Yuryevets, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | September 7, 1959 (aged 76) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Nationality | Russian Empire, Soviet Union |
Alma mater | Institute of Civil Engineers, Saint Petersburg |
Occupation | Architect |
Practice | Vesnin brothers |
Buildings | Dnieper Hydroelectric Station ZiL Palace of Culture |
Alexander Aleksandrovich Vesnin (Russian: Александр Александрович Веснин; 28 May 1883 – 7 September 1959), together with his brothers Leonid and Viktor, was a leading light of Constructivist architecture.[1] He is best known for his meticulous perspectival drawings such as Leningrad Pravda of 1924.
In addition to being an architect, he was a theatre designer and painter,[2] frequently working with Lyubov Popova on designs for workers' festivals, and for the theatre of Tairov. He was one of the exhibitors in the pioneering Constructivist exhibition 5×5=25 in 1921. He was the head, along with Moisei Ginzburg, of the Constructivist OSA Group.[3] Among the completed buildings designed by the Vesnin brothers in the later 1920s were department stores, a club for former Tsarist political prisoners as well as the Likachev Works Palace of Culture in Moscow. Vesnin was a vocal supporter of the works of Le Corbusier,[4] and acclaimed his Tsentrosoyuz building as 'the best building constructed in Moscow for a century'. After the return to Classicism in the Soviet Union, Vesnin had no further major projects.
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