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Melnikov House: The private house of architect and painter Konstantin Melnikov in Krivoarbatsky Lane in Moscow was completed in 1927-1929 and consists of two intersecting cylindrical towers decorated with a pattern of hexagonal windows. The concept evolved from his schematic draft for the Zuev Workers Club. The towers are a honeycomb lattice made of brickwork. 60 of more than 200 cells were glazed with windows of three different frame designs, the rest filled with clay and scrap. This unorthodox design was a direct consequence of material rationing by the state. The largest room, a 50 square meter workshop on the third floor, is lit with 38 hexagonal windows. The large living room has a single wide window above the main entrance. Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov was a Russian architect and painter. Although associated with the Constructivists, Melnikov was an independent artist. In 1930s, Melnikov refused to conform with the rising stalinist architecture, withdrew from practice and worked as a portrait painter and teacher until the end of his life.
Spiral stair enciosure at the Intersection of the cylinders.
Completed in 1929 in Moscow, Russia. The Melnikov House by architect Konstantin Melnikov is a classic residence that represents the forefront of the 1920’s Russian avant-garde. Located...
Work is underway to conserve a Moscow architect's pioneering modernist home.
Introductory notes here.
Introductory notes here.
The bedroom, with incomplete partitions loosely separating different zones. (Yellow was a sleep-color in Melnikov's color theory.) Note: Per the wishes of Melnikov's grand-daughter, who maintains the house, these interior photos are not available for print use. They are provided here solely for study purposes, and to raise awareness about the condition of this important and endangered house. Introductory notes here.
A reportage by Cemal Emden.
For more on the Melnikov house in Moscow, including a retrospective evaluation of its plan, please see: wp.me/pgGDG-2DT
Moscow, Russia, 25/04/2013..Bedroom and living space inside the Melnikov House [1927-1929], the most famous construction by Soviet avant-garde architect Konstantin Melnikov, in central Moscow. The house, which is slowly collapsing, is the subject of a complex dispute between the architect's grand-daughter Ekaterina, who lives there and wants to turn it into a museum, her sister Elena, and businessman Sergei Gordeev.
For more on the Melnikov house in Moscow, including a retrospective evaluation of its plan, please see: wp.me/pgGDG-2DT
For more on the Melnikov house in Moscow, including a retrospective evaluation of its plan, please see: wp.me/pgGDG-2DT
Melnikov house - hand made model.
Last week I visited one of the most famous buildings in Russia - Melnikov's house.
This house was something I came upon by accident, but it really intrigued me. From a US perspective, Russian architecture is rarely explored in any detail in architecture schools in the US (at least not at the one I attended) aside from a cursory mention of Constructivism presented in an art history seminar. I was…
Melnikov House in Moscow by avant-garde Russian architect Konstantin Melnikov is under threat, warn heritage experts and architects.
The cylindrical Melnikov House in Moscow is one of the most important buildings of the 20th century and among the most unusual homes on the planet. It has also been sinking into the ground for 13
Оригинал взят у greedyspeedy в Наркомтяжпром Константина Мельникова в Москве В 1934 году был объявлен конкурс на строительство Народного Комиссариата Тяжёлой Промышленности (Наркомтяжпром) в Москве. Предполагаемое место строительства - Красная площадь. Задача перед архитекторами стояла по-истине…
La Casa Melnikov es un icónico ejemplo del constructivismo ruso. Fue construida por el arquitecto Konstantín Melnikov entre 1927 y 1929 en Moscú.
