Nikolai Kolli
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Born | Nikolai Dzhemsovich Kolli 17 August [O.S. 5 August] 1894 |
Died | 3 December 1966 Moscow, Soviet Union | (aged 72)
Alma mater | Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Vkhutemas |
Occupation | Architect |
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collaboration with Le Corbusier.
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Nikolai Dzhemsovich (Yakovlevich) Kolli (Russian: Николай Джемсович (Яковлевич) Колли; 17 August [O.S. 5 August] 1894 – 3 December 1966) was a Soviet and Russian architectural functionary, and city planner in the Soviet Union. Initially a Modernist—Constructivist architect, he later adopted socialist realism.[1]
History
[edit]Kolli (Coley) was born in Moscow in to a family of Scottish origin, and studied at the Imperial Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and then at the Leninist VKhUTEMAS in Moscow.[1]
He first came to attention with a 1918 proposal for a monument celebrating the victory of the Red Army over Tzarist General Krasnov, in the form of a red wedge cleaving a block of white stone. It became an image that artist El Lissitzky subsequently appropriated in "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge."
Modernism
[edit]Nikolai Kolli studied under Ivan Zholtovsky as one of his "Twelve Disciples." In the late 1920s became a member of both the Soviet OSA Group (Union of Contemporary Architects), and a delegate to the international CIAM (Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne) architectural group.
From 1928 to 1932 he lived part-time in Paris, assisting Le Corbusier in that architect's only built work in Moscow, the Tsentrosoyuz building (Central Cooperative Alliance offices).[2][1]
Career
[edit]Kolli taught at the N. E. Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School from 1920 to 1941, and at the Moscow Institute of Architecture from 1931 to 1941.[1]
From 1935 to 1951 he headed the Moscow branch of the Soviet Union of Architects. Nikolai Kolli is buried in the Vvedenskoye Cemetery.[3]
Works
[edit]The works of Nikolai Kolli include:
- All-Russian Agricultural and Cottage-industry Exhibition, Moscow, 1923 — collaborated in the design of a number of structures.[1]
- Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, on the Dnieper River in Zaporizhzhia, 1927-1932 — with Viktor Vesnin and others.
- Tsentrosoyuz building (Central Cooperative Alliance), Moscow, (design 1928 - 1933, built 1933) — collaboration with Le Corbusier.[1][2]
- Chistye Prudy station of the Moscow Metro, 1935.[1]
- North Pavilion for the Park Kultury station of the Moscow Metro, 1935 — with S.G. Andrievsky.[1]
- Paveletskaya station of the Moscow Metro, 1950 — with I. Kasetl.[1]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i The Free Dictionary: Nikolai Dzhemsovich Kolli . accessed 11.23.2013
- ^ a b The Charnel-House blog: Nikolai Kolli and Le Corbusier’s Tsentrosoiuz building in Moscow (text & vintage images) . accessed 11.23.2013.
- ^ Vvedenskoe.pogost.info: Nikolai Kolli, buried in Vvedenskoye Cemetery
- The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979).
- “Arkhitektor N. Ia. Kolli.” Arkhitektura SSSR, 1964, no. 12.
- 1894 births
- 1966 deaths
- 20th-century Russian architects
- Architects from Moscow
- Academic staff of Bauman Moscow State Technical University
- Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne members
- Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture alumni
- Vkhutemas alumni
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Constructivist architects
- Modernist architects
- Modernist architecture in Russia
- Russian educators
- Russian urban planners
- Soviet architects
- Soviet educators
- Soviet urban planners
- Burials at Vvedenskoye Cemetery