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Alexander Aleksandrovic Vesnin (Russian: Александр Александрович Веснин) (born
1883,
Yuryevets - died
1959, Moscow), together with his brothers
Leonid Aleksandrovic Vesnin and
Viktor Aleksandrovic Vesnin he was a leading light of
Constructivist 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 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.
Selected Work
- 1934 Commissariat of Heavy Industry Project
- 1930 Oilworkers' Club, Baku(External Link
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- 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. (External Link)
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