Nikolai Borisovich Sokolov

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Sokolov at the first OSA conference , 1928.

Nikolai Borissowitsch Sokolow ( Russian: Николай Борисович Соколов ; scientific transliteration Nikolaj Borisovič Sokolov ); (* 9. jul. / 22. March  1904 greg.  In St. Petersburg ; † 1. March 1990 in Moscow ) was a Soviet constructivist architect and desurbanistischer city planners .

Life

Sokolov was born on March 22, 1904 in Saint Petersburg.

1925-30 he studied at the WChUTEMAS (later WChUTEIN) in Moscow under the direction of Alexander Wesnin . His diploma project, designed in 1928, was a design for a spa hotel. Sokolow was a member of the OSA . 1926-30 he was scientific secretary of the magazine Sovremenaja architektura (SA) .

1929-30 he worked in the section for socialist development according to the state plan of the RSFSR . He worked with Vyacheslav Vladimirov , Mikhail Perschtsch , Mikhail Ochitowitsch, a desurbanist competition design for the city of Magnitogorsk , which was not implemented. In 1930 he worked on the competition design for the Green City , a planned suburb of Moscow. These plans also remained unrealized. Likewise the plans for Tschardschou , which he helped to prepare in a brigade 1931–32.

In 1990 Nikolai Sokolov died in Moscow.

Works (selection)

Unrealized works

  • 1929–30 with the section for socialist development: general plan for Magnitogorsk
  • 1929–30 with the Section for Socialist Development: General Plan for the Green City, Moscow
  • 1931–32 with one brigade: General plan for Tschardschou

Web links

Commons : Nikolai Sokolow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Avant-garde I. 1900–1923. Russian-Soviet architecture . DVA, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-421-03018-9 , pp. 307 .