Melnikov,
Konstantin Stepanovich (1890, Moscow - 1974, ibid) - architect. Genus. family road worker. In 1902 he graduated from the parish school and worked as a "boy" in the trading firm. Large technique engineer VM Chaplin drew attention to the artistic ability of M. and became his patron and friend, helped end the 1917 Moscow. uch-School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In the 1916-1918 M. involved design and construction of car plant AMO in Moscow, where he caught the roar of the February and October. 1917. M. worked in architectural schools and has taught. His numerous projects - public buildings, houses, garages, monuments - are a bright beacon of owls. Architecture 20-ies. World fame brought M. he created owls. Pavilion at the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925. "Living monument" in Moscow was built by M. own house in Krivoarbatsky Lane, in a-rum unusually everything: planning, space, design. Round building of crashed into each other two vertical cylinders were modeled through the inner space of the original. As MM said, "vision need to be managed as well as hearing, musical". Innovative projects, Moscow, in the majority remained on paper, nonetheless put him in a number of the pioneers of modern architecture in XX.
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