- Alexander Vesnin
Alexander Aleksandrovic Vesnin ( _ru. Александр Александрович Веснин) (1883,
Yuryevets – 1959, Moscow), together with his brothersLeonid Aleksandrovic Vesnin andViktor Aleksandrovic Vesnin he was a leading light ofConstructivist architecture . He is best known for his meticulous perspectival drawings such as "Leningrad Pravda" of 1924.As well as 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 withMoisei Ginzburg , of the ConstructivistOSA 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 ofLe Corbusier , and acclaimed hisTsentrosoyuz 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.elected Work
*1934 Commissariat of Heavy Industry Project
*1930 Oilworkers' Club, Baku [http://www.mhp.moscow.russia.museum/english/exhibitions/moscow/russianconstructivizm/photo1.html]
*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. [http://www.utopia.ru/english/item.phtml?id=191&type=graphics&sortby=view&start=0]References
*S.N Khan-Magomedov, Alexander Vesnin and Russian Constructivism (Thames and Hudson, 1988)
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