Melnikov House: Icon of Modernism, Family Home, Architecture Museum
Publishing Details
Melnikov House: Icon of Modernism, Family Home, Architecture Museum
By (Author) Pavel Kuznetsov
DOM Publishers
DOM Publishers
3rd July 2017
Germany
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Individual architects and architectural firms
720.9
Physical Properties
192
Width 210mm, Height 230mm
Description
The Melnikov House, a building designed by the architect Konstantin Melnikov in Moscow for his family (1927 - 1929), is an icon of the architectural avant-garde. The house was originally built as an experimental cylindrical house to test out Konstantin Melnikov's very own concept of mass construction of residential estate. The original layout, eleg
Author Bio
Pavel Kuznetsov, born in 1971, economist and author of academic articles and researchpapers. Studies on the Soviet architectural avant-garde since 2007. Since 2010, first deputy director of the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture (Moscow). In 2013, he initiated procedures in the RF Government to raise the state protection status of the Melnikov House. Since 2014, director of the State Melnikovs Museum.
