Authors

Vasilyev Nikolai Yu, Knyazev Mikhail B.
THE ARCHITECTURE OF FOR-PROFIT AND COOPERATIVE HOUSING IN THE CREATIVITY OF B. М. VELIKOVSKY

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №3 (67)

The architect Boris Velikovsky is known mainly as the author of the first avant-garde building in Moscow - Gostorg on Myasnitskaya Street. However, he was noted back in the pre-revolution decade as a practicing architect who built factories, mansions and for-profit housing. His expertise in the design and construction of the latter helped him create apartment buildings for the first Soviet cooperatives. Until very recently, the typology of multistoried apartment houses was considered separately for each of the two periods: before and after 1917, although building construction during the first years after the October revolution inherited directly the pre-revolution traditions. The personality of Velikovsky is interesting for the possibility to compare the different approaches to architecture during the Avant-Garde period and the emergence of the concepts of contemporary mass housing architecture.