Nikolai Ladovsky

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Collective House, 1921

Metro Station, 1935

Nikolai Alexandrovich Ladovsky (born 1881, Moscow - died 1941, Moscow) was a Russian Constructivist architect.

[edit] Career

Ladovsky graduated from the Moscow School of painting, sculpture and architecture in 1917. In 1919 he joined the Zhivskulptarkh group. From 1920 he taught at the VKhUTEMAS as one of the directors of the basic course. In 1921 he became a member of the Institute of Artistic Culture (Inkhuk) in Moscow. He became the principle theorist of the rationalist approach to architecture and was one of the founding members of the Association of New Architects (ASNOVA). In 1926 he co-edited with El Lissitzky the journal Izvestiia ASNOVA (ASNOVA News). 1928 saw him found the Union of Architects and Urbanists (ARU) and during 1932 he was elected to the Board of the Union of Soviet Architects.

[edit] Works (Selected)

1929–1930 - Project for the layout of a labour commune in the settlement of Kostino.
1929–1930 - Parabola project for the reconstruction of Moscow.
1929–1930 - Competition entry for the Green City near Moscow.
1931 - Competition entry for the Palace of the Soviets, Moscow.
1935 - Red Gates and Dzerzhinsky Square Metro Stations, Moscow. (Executed)