About the authors
| First name, Middle name, Last name, Scientific degree, Scientific rank, Current position. Full and brief name of the organization, The organization address. | Agisheva Inga Nazimovna candidate of architecture, professor Pokka Ekaterina Vladimirovna candidate of architecture, associate professor E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering The organization address: 420043, Russia, Kazan, Zelenaya st., 1 |
| Title of the article | Works of the architect Alexander Vesnin |
| Abstract. | Problem statement. Alexander Vesnin is a great avant-gardist of our country, the founder of the direction of architectural functionalism, the founder of school of constructivists. His works and the works of his pupils are presented in the literature. Many projects of constructivists are built. The purpose of the article is the analysis and generalization of career stages of Alexander Vesnin, and, as a result, constructivism formation stages. Results. The stage of scenic constructivism in A. Vesnin’s creativity, its influence on a stage of architectural constructivism in A. Vesnin’s creativity is analyzed. The comparative analysis is carried out and distinctive features in approaches to design of constructivists and rationalists are revealed. Conclusions. The importance of the received results for architecture consists in carrying out analogy of development of Alexander Vesnin’s career and stages of formation of constructivism. The architecture of constructivism requires from the architect not only knowledge in the field of technology, but also possession of the skills to form an architectural composition, since it requires the search for an expressive form. The end result of quality of architecture depends on understanding of functional process by the designer (as a starting point at the beginning of design). |
| Keywords. | vanguard, creative groups, functional design method, constructivism. |
| For citations: | Agisheva I.N., Pokka E.V. Works of the architect Alexander Vesnin // Izvestiya KGASU. 2018. №3(45) P.7-15. |
