Kaplya

Architect Alexandra Pavlova

Alexandra Pavlova is fondly remebered as Kaplya the architect. Descended from a family of architects, Kaplya widened her professional domain: apart from buiding houses and urban planning, she created exhibition models, artistic installations, and film scenography. 

Kaplya considered reinforcement of professional contacts and sharing experiences between colleagues and generations as an important part of architect’s way of life. The monograph Kaplya is a project in the memory of Alexandra Pavlova and a statement in favor of her principles. 

Credits

CURATORS: Alexander Brodsky, Yury Grigoryan

EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Taisia Osipova

CONSULTANTS: Anna Bronovitskaya, Alexei Muratov, Yuri Palmin, Sergei Sitar

TEXTS: Alexander Brodsky, Yury Grigoryan, Irina Korobyina, Arina Levitskaya, Yuri Palmin, Alexandra Pavlova, Liya Pavlova, Elena Petrova, Vladimir Plotkin, Ivan Savin, Sergei Sitar, Gleb Soshnikov, Alexander Zeldovich

TRANSLATION: Clive Phillips, Alexandra Yagnukova

REWRITE: Ben de Courcy Jones, Jack Rizzotti

DESIGN AND LAYOUT: Haico Beukers and Marga Scholma, Beukers Scholma, editorial design studio

PRINTING: Zwaan Printmedia

BINDING: Boekbinderij Van Waarden

BOOK PHOTOGRAPHS: Beukers Scholma

The book about an architect Aleksandra Pavlova “Kaplya” published by MGNM Books in 2018 as part of the publishing program at the Meganom offifice for architecture. With the support of Tatlin Publishing House and the Institute of Modernism. 

Images are provided by the Meganom architectural bureau, by the Pavlov family and by the authors: Michail Beilin, Alexander Brodsky, Olga Golovina, Ilya Ivanov, Alexander Ilkhovsky, Alexey Knyazev, Alexei Kozyir, Tatiana Kornienko, Alexandra Koptelova, Michail Labazov, Andrey Savin, Andrey Cheltsov, Sergey Radlov (Art-Blya); Alexandra Mudrats (ITAR-TASS), Alexey Naroditsky (Project Russia), Kirill Ovchinnikov, Liya Pavlova, Yuri Palmin, Thngs, Ekaterina Shalina and Olga Ryabtseva (Vogue), Stas Zhitsky, Marco Zanta, Alexander Zeldovich.

Film frames published in the book: images from the television program “A Woman’s City” by Elena Lysakova, images from the film “Target” by Alexander Zeldovich and from the fifilm “Glass Tower” by Sergey Radlov.

The book, “Kaplya,” was published in 2018 as part of the “MGNM books” program by the Meganom office for architecture, in a series of two books: “Kaplya” and David.

UDC 72.037(470)(092), BBC 85.11, Auth.s. К20

ISBN 978-5-600-00463-4