Brief biography of Melnikov

Konstantin Melnikov: The famous projects of the architect garage in the form of a horseshoe, the house-fara and other unique avant-garde monuments in Moscow on April 10, it is updated to find the excursion to show more than 22 excursions and rounds around the world Konstantin Melnikov, they consider the architect of the future, the Soviet Gaudi, which each project began again, avoiding repetitions and copying of even himself.

The whole world admired his creations, and in their homeland they were subjected to hard criticism. We tell how the unsurpassed genius of the avant -garde forever changed the appearance of Moscow. He began his creative activity from work as an assistant in the engineering company Zalessky and Chaplin. One of the owners of the company saw the talent of design at the thirteen -year -old boy, offered to develop it and even invited a drawing teacher for this.

This helped young Melnikov enter the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and successfully finish it. Melnikov family. Engineer V. And after the release from the school of sculpture and architecture, he worked in the workshop of the Moscow City Council under the leadership of Ivan Zholtovsky and Alexei Shchusev. Here, a novice architect, together with other masters, created a plan for the development and reconstruction of Moscow.

Even on the topic, the architect gradually formed his own innovative style, which made his name. Like many avant -garde, he abandoned traditional architectural schools and directions and focused on finding new ways of expression. Konstantin Melnikov created bizarre forms, combined materials, played with space and light, and many of his projects ahead of the technical capabilities of his time.

All projects of Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov were distinguished by innovation not only in relation to the work of other architects, but also in relation to each other. Starting to a new task, he avoided any imitations and each time found and offered more and more unusual solutions. Temporary projects of Konstantin Melnikov not all the legacy of the architect can be seen today.

Here are some of the most famous. The Pavilion of Mahorka is Melnikov's bright personality as an architect for the first time at the All -Russian Agricultural Exhibition of the Year. A small project, which, did not seem to promise success and fame, became real news and struck architects and customers with an original idea. Melnikov turned over the space of the pavilion so that the factory conveyor was vertically located, and the movement of visitors was organized up the external spiral staircase.

Together with huge posters and angular glazing, the pavilion attracted the attention of visitors to the exhibition.

Melnikov on the pavilion balcony Pavilion for the World Exhibition in Paris by the next innovative project, which brought the architect of world fame, is the original pavilion for the World exhibition of decorative arts in Paris for the year. The project was an almost completely glazed two -story wooden building, which permeated a wide staircase, forming a flat diagonal.

The staircase was covered by beams and transparent red shields. In the afternoon, the light, penetrating through the shields, made visitors passing along the stairs. According to his projects, as many as five clubs in Moscow are erected and one in the suburbs, a number of garages are built where buses can park and travel without using a reverse move. Club of the factory named after Here is what they write about him in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda in the year: “The most painful medieval imagination, the most gloomy fantasies of the Bosch pale before the creations of the architect Melnikov.” He was accused of unprincipled innovation, individualism and tricks, which could not correlate with the title of advanced Soviet architect, and even for several years he was excommunicated from the profession.

However, even in such conditions, from all the architects of the avant -garde, Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov managed to realize the largest number of work. Most of his ideas remained on paper and did not leave the walls of the workshop. But some projects were successfully implemented and still decorate the streets of Moscow. We talk about the most significant and bold buildings preserved to this day in different areas of the city.

Melnikov architecture on the map Address: Voster of the Lenin Museum in Gorki Date of Creation: Year project of the first sarcophagus for the leader was created by Konstantin Melnikov in the year. It was a glass cap of an unusual shape, resembling a fabulous crystal coffin. Konstantin Melnikov developed in his workshop eight more options, one of which was embodied. The sarcophagus was in the mausoleum on the territory of Red Square up to a year.

The first option was preserved and entered the storage at the Lenin Museum in Gorki, where it is now. True, disassembled.