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Alexander Vesnin | |
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 Photo byAlexander Rodchenko, 1924 (fragment) | |
| Born | 28 May 1883 Yuryevets,Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 7 September 1959 (1959-09-08) (aged 76) Moscow,Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Institute of Civil Engineers, Saint Petersburg |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Practice | Vesnin brothers |
| Buildings | Dnieper Hydroelectric Station ZiL Palace of Culture |
Alexander Aleksandrovich Vesnin (Russian:Александр Александрович Веснин; 28 May 1883 – 7 September 1959), together with his brothersLeonid andViktor, was a leading light ofConstructivist architecture.[1] He is best known for his meticulousperspectival drawings such asLeningrad Pravda of 1924.
In addition to being an architect, he was a theatre designer and painter,[2] frequently working withLyubov Popova on designs for workers' festivals, and for the theatre of Tairov. He was one of the exhibitors in the pioneering Constructivist exhibition5×5=25 in 1921. He was the head, along withMoisei Ginzburg, of the ConstructivistOSA Group.[3] Among the completed buildings designed by the Vesnin brothers in the later 1920s were department stores, a club for former Tsarist political prisoners as well as the Likachev Works Palace of Culture in Moscow. Vesnin was a vocal supporter of the works ofLe Corbusier,[4] and acclaimed hisTsentrosoyuz building as 'the best building constructed in Moscow for a century'. After the return to Classicism in the Soviet Union, Vesnin had no further major projects.
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