Mikhail Barshch
(Jan 29, 1904 - Nov 8, 1976) |
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Mikhail Barshch |
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Moscow |
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Russian |
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Jan 29, 1904 |
| Death: |
Nov 8, 1976 |
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Biography
| Russian architect and teacher. He studied (1920-26) in the Vkhutemas, Moscow, and joined the Constructivist group Osa. His joint diploma project with M. I. Sinyavsky (1895-1979) for a vast administrative and market complex was formally and structurally bold, and its widespread publication brought him to public attention. Barshchs first notable building was the Moscow Planetarium (1928; with Sinyavsky), the result of a competition. Conceived as an anti-religious theatre of science in central Moscow, it established the architects in the canon of international Modernism. Thereafter Barshch worked in Moisey Ginzburgs housing research team for the Construction Committee (Stroikom) of the Russian Republic. He also collaborated on an uncompromisingly bold communal housing complex for a thousand people and a low-density design (1929) for the new city of Magnitogorsk, with the disurbanist ideologue M. A. Okhitovich (1896-1937), which crowned an early career at the centre of the innovative avant-garde. In the 1930s Barshch worked under the classicist Ivan Zholtovsky on housing and planning for Moscow, Saratov and Nizhny Tagil, then on public buildings for Moscow. In this work, and as a charismatic teacher (1935-60) in the Moscow Architectural Institute, he brought rigour and inventiveness to the successive stylistic demands. In 1944 he designed standardized low-rise housing for war-damaged areas, and in 1948-9 led post-war reconstruction in Minsk. As a head of studio from 1950, in Moscow, he executed a wide range of experimental housing and community facilities. He also led officially selected teams for national and international competitions; among his successes were a monument to cosmic explorers (1971) in the park of the Palais des Nations, Geneva, and a commendation in the competition (1972) for the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. |
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