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May 16, 1883 Yuryevets, Russia Died on 07 Nov 1959 (aged 76)
Soviet Russian architect
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About Alexander Vesnin
- Alexander Aleksandrovic Vesnin (Russian: ????????? ????????????? ??????) (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. 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.
