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Konstantin Melnikov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Konstantin Stepanovitch Melnikov (Russian 'Константин Степанович Мельников'; July 22 (August 3) 1890, Moscow - November 28, 1974, Moscow) was a Russian architect and major figure member of the Constructivist avant-garde in the early 20th century. Melnikov was born into a working-class family and took a degree in architecture in 1917. Beginning with a 1923 pavilion for the All-Russian Agriculture and Handicraft Exhibition, Melnikov embarked on a string of innovative and high-profile commissions: the sarcophagus at Lenin's Mausoleum in 1924, and the Soviet pavilion at the Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (1925). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Konstantin_Melnikov   (349 words)

Melnikov Konstantin Melnikov was one of the outstanding architects of the Soviet avant-garde. He suggested that Melnikov's house could be seen as a protest against the constructivist pseudo-dogma dictating the use of the right angle and the rectangular ground plan, as well as an allusion to the fact that people instinctively long for a place to live that is enclosed and private. Melnikov's work was often criticised for being individualistic which, in accordance with Party polemics, made it a subject for various ideological implications: the architecture of the clubs was said not to serve the purpose of propaganda for the proletariat and the buildings were seen as representing idealistic rather than materialistic convictions. home.iae.nl /users/wie/melnikov/verhaale   (5881 words)

Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Konstantin Melnikov born in 1890 was a Russian architect who broke with the Classical tradition of architecture and pioneered revolutionary building designs in the 1920's. Melnikov recognized that humans spend almost a third of their life asleep and saw this time as restorative -- almost miraculous and curative. Melnikov's Green City was planned around a circle, which was divided into six sectors of forest, collective farmlands, gardens, zoo and children's sectors. www.pnaumann.net /naumannMain/reviews/Melnikov.html   (388 words)

A House Without Angles Melnikov might show you the bedroom where he slept with his parents and his sister, with whom he has been feuding over the rights to the house. Melnikov built five Dom Kultury in Moscow alone, the most famous of which is the Dom Kultury Rusakova near the Sokol metro station. Melnikov's penchant for constructivism was the cause of his meteoric rise as well as his fall into obscurity. www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2000/10/07/051-print.html   (851 words)

Full Editorial from Current Issue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) The architect’s son, Viktor Melnikov, who is 90 years old and frail, still lives in the house and is concerned with its preservation, but disagreements within the Melnikov family have cast the future of the structure in doubt. Konstantin Melnikov (1890—1974) rejected traditional styles and construction methods in his search for a new kind of space for the new world. Melnikov was an heir to the Russian art tradition, which emphasized the expressive, emotional elements in creativity. www.artnewsonline.com /currentarticle.cfm?mode=current&art_id=1903   (1410 words)

Wired New York Forum - Russian Icons Melnikov's 90-year-old son, Viktor, who still lives there, wants to donate the house to the state and preserve it as a museum. Across town, Melnikov's 1927 Kauchuk club has been redecorated in a grotesque pastiche of neo-Classical pilasters and granite staircases that suggest a Stalin-era bordello, and his 1929 Burevestnik factory club is now a private health club with a Zen fountain. Melnikov's spartan concrete bed platforms, which once gave the master bedroom the look of a monastic cell, were torn out decades ago -- not even 90-year-old Viktor seems to remember exactly when. www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=6816   (3646 words)

Konstantin Melnikov: Minimalist Arch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Melnikov never distorted a geometric form: cylinder, cones, parallelepiped, rhomboid are freely combined, intersect, interpenetrate, and are articulated in a variety of ways while retaining their defined geometrical identity.. Melnikov achieves the most rational organization possible in any composition. Melnikov achieves an appropriately expressive appearance for each building and a novel approach to interior design. www.kmtspace.com /kmt/melnikov.htm   (96 words)

Konstantin Melnikov - Great Buildings Online Konstantin Melnikov was born to a peasant family in Moscow in 1890. Melnikov rejected "method" in design, instead focussing on "intuition" as the important factor in expressing the social and symbolic meaning of a building. In 1933 Melnikov became the chief designer of a Moscow studio, but his growing intolerance of Soviet bureaucracy led to his expulsion from architecture in 1937. www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Konstantin_Melnikov.html   (290 words)

Melnikov's House Studio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) An icon of Russian constructivist architecture, the house-studio of Konstantin Melnikov (1890–1974) served as the architect’s retreat and was the only single-family dwelling to be built for a private citizen during the Soviet era. The original layout and furnishings have been preserved by the architect’s son, Viktor Melnikov, along with the archive of Melnikov’s architectural drawings and paintings. Currently, Melnikov’s son Viktor maintains the house at his own expense, but has limited resources for a survey of the foundation and conservation management plan. www.wmf.org /html/programs/resources/sitepages/russia_melnikovs_house_studio.html   (249 words)

Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov Biography / Biography of Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov Biography Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov (1890-1974) was one of the Russian avant-garde's most prolific and internationally celebrated architects during the 1920s. By 1937 the individualism of his architecture no longer had a place in Stalin's U.S.S.R. Konstantin Melnikov was born a peasant on the outskirts of Moscow in 1890. As seen in his surviving student projects, Melnikov's education in architecture was conservative, emphasizing the classical architectural tradition. www.bookrags.com /biography-konstantin-stepanovich-melnikov   (229 words)

Son of the leading Russian Constructivist architect, Konstantin Melnikov, has donated his father’s house to the city ... Son of the leading Russian Constructivist architect, Konstantin Melnikov, has donated his father’s house to the city of Moscow. Victor Melnikov, son of the leading Russian Constructivist architect, Konstantin Melnikov, has donated his father’s personal house to the city of Moscow, ending years of speculation about the fate of Moscow’s most prominent Constructivist masterpiece. Victor Melnikov, who still resides in the three-story cylinder house with its striking honeycomb windows, believes the city will turn the house into a museum to honour his father’s work. www.artrussia.ru /artnews.php?id=458   (160 words)

Konstantin S Mel'Nikov And the Construction of Moscow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Konstantin S Mel'Nikov And the Construction of Moscow The book is based on material from the exhibition on Melnikov at the Triennale di Milan 1999. The second part will gather the contributes of specialists on K.S. Mel'nikov's work and an anthology of writings by the architect himself. www.buchlounge.ch /de/architektur/konstantin-s-mel-nikov-and-the-construction-of-moscow   (405 words)

MSN Encarta - Russia In the 19th century the Russian genius for blending foreign and native art forms produced the romantic poetry of Aleksandr Pushkin; the realist novels of Nikolay Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Leo Tolstoy; and the brilliant operas and ballets of Mikhail Glinka, Aleksandr Borodin, Peter Tchaikovsky, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, and Modest Mussorgsky. Under the directorship of Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, the Moscow Art Theater performed the bittersweet plays of Anton Chekhov and the realist works of Maksim Gorky, including his best-known play, The Lower Depths (1902; translated 1912). The revolutionary creations of Russia’s avant-garde, especially the constructivist designs of Vladimir Tatlin and Konstantin Melnikov (see Constructivism), continued during the first years of the Soviet era. encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569000_7/Russia.html   (2175 words)

Melnikov House - Konstantin Melnikov - Great Buildings Online "The aesthetic purism of Melnikov's use of interlocking cylinders makes so strong an initial impression upon one that it is easy to overlook the profoundly classical aspects of the house. The site plan indicates what care he took to achieve symmetry both along the longitudinal axis and across it, the one exception being the layout of the forward section of the ground floor. We appreciate your suggestions for links about Melnikov House. www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Melnikov_House.html   (328 words)

Sunbirds.com: Ruslan and Ludmila - Russian Lacquer item   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) This period in Palekh produced a great number of talented artists, all of whom were being taught by the founders of lacquer art in Palekh. Konstantin Melnikov was born in the town of Lukh in the Ivanovo Region of Russia in 1920. In addition to lacquer miniature, Melnikov was also involved in mural painting, and worked on the frescos in the Pioneers' Palace in Belovo in the Kemerovo Region of Russia. www.sunbirds.com /lacquer/box/771344/webcam   (690 words)

[No title] The rostrum made a big stir at the International Exhibition of Theatrical Art in Vienna in 1924 where it was first exhibited. K. Melnikov House in Krivoarbatsky pereulok in Moscow, 1927-1929. An experimental house, " a play of pure constructions" that confirmed in practice several complicated artistic-compositional and constructive methods. www.parallelgraphics.com /l2/showroom/examples/isb/constructivism/gallery.html   (502 words)

Press releases Today it is possible to speak without doubts, that architect K.S. Melnikov (1890-1974) has occupied, prepared to him with a history, a place in a number of oustanding representatives of the Russian culture: Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, etc. By K.S. Melnikov it was developed, but was not realized 25 architectural and 12 town-planning projects for Moscow. His exhibition hall of the USSR has been awarded for novelty and the modernity of the architectural form the supreme international reward - the Grand prix and has been saved by the Frenchmen in Paris for a history. www.tm-km.com /press1.html   (630 words)

A House Without Angles The house still stands today at 10 Krivoarbatsky Pereulok — a monument to Melnikov’s vision and a reminder of the political repression that buried the promising architect’s career almost as soon as it got off the ground. Built on the ruins of a 14th-century church — a victim of fire, not political repression — Melnikov’s house was proposed as a model for how people were to live in the future. Perhaps it was his achievement at the Paris Exposition of Decorative Arts in 1925, where Melnikov was... www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2000/10/07/104.html   (248 words)

2000 April issue A Moscow critic Konstantin Savkin's report from exhibitions of term projects "Garage" and "Museum" performed by third- and fourth year-students of MArchI. In October the state scientific-research Museum of architecture named after A.V.Shusev was the venue of K.Melnikov's exposition under the name "Konstantin Melnikov and Moscow. The effect of transferring plane images into three-dimensional form exceeded expectations in certain cases: thus Melnikov's competition design of the "Leningradskaya pravda" building in spite of critical remarks by historians concerning the authenticity of the exhibited model turned up in a totally new quality as one of the highest achievement of the master's creative genius. www.archvestnik.ru /0004_eng.htm   (2351 words)

Background   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) My first impression of the design was that the architect had courage to express what came to mind and the freedom to act on these thoughts. Melnikov's being banned from practicing his trade about ten years after this project may indicate that such a disposition was not popular with the authorities in 1930's Russia. See also the book "The Melnikov House," Moscow (1927-1929), Konstantin Melnikov, by Juhani Pallasmaa with Andrei Gozak, Acadamy Group Ltd., 1996 architecture.mit.edu /~dhamby/backgrou.htm   (239 words)

Wiley::The Melnikov House, Moscow (1927 - 1929): Konstantin Melnikov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Wiley::The Melnikov House, Moscow (1927 - 1929): Konstantin Melnikov Wiley > Architecture & Design > Special Topics > The Melnikov House, Moscow (1927 - 1929): Konstantin Melnikov The Melnikov House, Moscow (1927 - 1929): Konstantin Melnikov www.wiley.com /WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1854904132,descCd-tableOfContents.html   (114 words)

Mirago : Arts: Architecture: History: Architects: M: Melnikov, Konstantin Mirago : Arts: Architecture: History: Architects: M: Melnikov, Konstantin Top: Arts: Architecture: History: Architects: M: Melnikov, Konstantin Konstantin Melnikov - Brief biography and pictorial survey of the work of the 'Productivist' Russian architect prominent in the early 1920s by Rein Saariste. www.mirago.com /scripts/dir.aspx?cat=Top/Arts/Architecture/History/Architects/M/Melnikov,_Konstantin   (78 words)

Architecture and Architects by Country Detailed overview map, live webcam view, panoramic Quicktime views, interiors. Melnikov House, by Konstantin Melnikov, at Moscow, Russia, 1927. Rusakov Club, by Konstantin Melnikov, at Moscow, Russia, 1927 to1929. www.zeroland.co.nz /architecture_2.html   (201 words)

View topic - Call for photos - Buildings by Konstantin Melnikov Call for photos - Buildings by Konstantin Melnikov Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 11:37 am Post subject: Call for photos - Buildings by Konstantin Melnikov Artifice Images is seeking submissions of photographs of buildings by Konstantin Melnikov. www.architectureforum.com /topic-4774.html   (189 words)

Konstantin Melnikov - Great Buildings Online Re: Konstantin Melnikov - Great Buildings Online TINA 11:19:21 4/18/99 ( Re: Konstantin Melnikov - Great Buildings Online Kevin Matthews 16:08:00 3/27/99 ( This document is provided for on-line viewing only. www.artifice.com /discussion/10.html   (58 words)

Melnikov, Konstantin Mikhailovich - LACQUER MINIATURE ARTIST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Melnikov's works are now held in the State Museum of Palekh Art and the State Museum of Ethnography of Peoples of Russia. You may use this link to contact Konstantin Melnikov Your email message will be printed out and handed to the artist in Russia www.sunbirds.com /lacquer/artist/1432   (219 words)

The Melnikov House, Moscow (1927 - 1929) : Konstantin Melnikov (Historical Buildings, No 4) - Price Comparison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) The Melnikov House, Moscow (1927 - 1929) : Konstantin Melnikov (Historical Buildings, No 4) - Price Comparison The Melnikov House, Moscow (1927 - 1929) : Konstantin Melnikov (Historical Buildings, No 4) Information about Compricer - Contact - Help and support - Company Information - Legal Disclaimer - Partner Stores - List of all books books.compricer.com /1854904132   (177 words)

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