KONSTANTIN MELNIKOV AND HIS HOUSE

Konstantin Melnikov (18901974) is unquestionably one of the outstanding architects of the 20th century in spite of the fact that he fell silent early, leaving behind only limited work that was insufficiently publicized, and restricted almost exclusively to Mosc ow, the city of his birth in which he spent nearly his entire life and which did not appreciate him. He was raised in humble circums tances, but enjoyed an excellent education. Beginning in the mid-1920s, after the turmoil that followed the war, revolution and civi l war, his ...[Read more]