Architect Leonid Pavlov

The Great Modernist

Meganom's publication dedicated to the outstanding Soviet architect Leonid Pavlov became his first complete monograph. The book is a part of the renowned Modern Masters series at the Electa Architecture publishing house. A research of the original drawings, sketches, paintings, and handwriting, kept by the Museum of Architecture and Pavlov's widow Liya Pavlova, resulted in the architect's biography and a detailed catalogue of his selected works.

The student and friend of both Alexander Vesnin and Ivan Leonidov, Pavlov started as a Constructivist, then produced historicist designs during the Stalin era, before returning to avant-garde forms in the mid-1950s and becoming one of the leading architects of Soviet Modernism. His last project — the Lenin Gorki Memorial — marked the transition to Postmodernist aesthetics in the USSR. 

The book, released in Russian and English versions, tells about Pavlov’s life and practice. It contains texts by Anna Bronovitskaya, Olga Kazakova and Liya Pavlova, as well as Pavlov’s own selected writings, along with an illustrated catalogue of his complete works. The reference tools include a bibliography and a list of other books from the same series.

Credits

BOOK CONCEPT: Meganom

PUBLISHER: Francesco Dal Co and Electa Architecture

EDITOR AND COMPLIER: Anna Bronovitskaya 

TEXTS: Anna Bronovitskaya, Olga Kazakova, Liya Pavlova, Nikolay Yerofeev.

REWRITE: Laura Guidetti (Electa Architecture) Sergey Kulikov, Yuliya Alekseeva, Anastasiya Lipatova (Meganom)

TRANSLATORS: Clive Philips, Anna Shirokova-Koens, Tatiana Voronina, Alexandra Yagniukova, Dariya Yermoshina.

ENGLISH EDITOR: Roger Connah

DESIGN: Paolo Tassinari and design studio Tassinari/Vetta

LAYOUT: Anna Dalla Via (Electa Architeture) Ivan Stepanenko (Meganom)

PHOTOGRAPHER: Yuriy Palmin

IMAGE CREDITS: Liya Pavlova, Nikolay Pavlov, Schusev State Museum of Architecture

COORDINATOR: Giovanna Crespi (Electa Architecture), Taisia Osipova (Meganom)

The book Architect Leonid Pavlov was published in 2015 as a part of the Modern Masters series by Electa Architecture.

ISBN: English edition 978-88-918-0570-6, Russian edition 978-5-600-00465-8.

UDC 72.071, BBC 85.113(2)