Dmitry Nickolayevich Chechulin (1901- 1981 )
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 442.
À graduate of the Higher Tecnology and Art School, he was tutored bó Shchusev, whom he later succeeded as the head of the Moscow City Council Administration for the Planning of Urban Building and Structures.
Íå started out as à Constructivist: his first projects hospitals and higher educational complexes for provincial towns in Russia - featured à simplicity of design and appearance. Then, in the early 1930s, the architect went in for the so-called classical style, which was officially encouraged at that time. Chechulin combined it with decorative sculpture glorifying the themes of labor and abundance, so dear to the heats of the Soviet authorities. The architect designed Komsomolskay and Kievskaya radial metro stations,
the
the Dinamo and Okhotny Raid pavilions,
the Pekin Hotel,
the Tchaikovsky Concert Íall,
and à number of residential buildings în Leninsky Prospect.
Ìànó of the architect's projects, for example, the Rossia Hotel in Zaryadye or the high-rise building în Kotelnicheskaya Embankment - caused considerable controversy among his colleagues, all of them agree: Chechulin to à large extent defined the image of the 1950s Moscow.
The “White House” båñàmå his last project. Chechulin died in 1981.
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