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Occupation
  
Architect

Name
  
Alexander Vesnin

Practice
  
Role
  
Architect

Alexander Vesnin Russian AvantGarde Suprematistische Komposition
Born
  
May 28 (16), 1883

Nationality
  
Russian Empire, Soviet Union

Alma mater
  
Institute of Civil Engineers,Saint Petersburg

Buildings
  
Dnieper Hydroelectric StationZiL Palace of Culture

Died
  
September 7, 1959, Moscow, Russia

Siblings
  
Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin, Leonid Aleksandrovich Vesnin

Alexander Aleksandrovic Vesnin (Russian: aleksandr aleksandrovich Vesnin) (1883, Yuryevets – 1959, Moscow), together with his brothers Leonid and Viktor, was a leading light of Constructivist architecture. He is best known for his meticulous perspectival drawings such as Leningrad Pravda of 1924.

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In addition to being an architect, he was a theatre designer and painter, 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 5x5=25 in 1921. He was the head, along with Moisei Ginzburg, of the Constructivist OSA Group. 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, 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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Selected Work

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  • 1934 Commissariat of Heavy Industry Project
  • 1930 Oilworkers' Club, Baku
  • 1930-36 Likachev Palace of Culture, Moscow
  • 1928 House of Film Actors, Moscow
  • 1926 Mostorg department store, Moscow
  • 1924 Leningradskaya Pravda project
  • 1922-23 Palace of Labor project.

  • Alexander Vesnin Vesnin Brothers Architectuul

    References

    Alexander Vesnin Wikipedia