Nikolai Kolli

Nikolai Dzhemsovich (Yakovlevich) Kolli (Russian: Николай Джемсович (Яковлевич) Колли) (17 August [O.S. 5 August] 1894 – 3 December 1966) was a Russian Modernist—Constructivist architect, Soviet architectural functionary, and city planner in the Soviet Union.[1]

Nikolai Dzhemsovich (Yakovlevich) Kolli
Born17 August [O.S. 5 August] 1894
Moscow
DiedDecember 3, 1966(1966-12-03) (aged 72)
Moscow
NationalityRussian/Soviet
OccupationArchitect
Tsentrosoyuz building (1933), Moscow,
collaboration with Le Corbusier.
Chistye Prudy station of the Moscow Metro (vintage image).

History

Kolli was born in Moscow, 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."

Nikolai Kolli is buried in the Vvedenskoye Cemetery.[2]

Modernism

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 through 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).[3] Planning and construction[1]

Career

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.

Works

The works of Nikolai Kolli include:

See also

References
  1. The Free Dictionary: Nikolai Dzhemsovich Kolli . accessed 11.23.2013
  2. Vvedenskoe.pogost.info: Nikolai Kolli, buried in Vvedenskoye Cemetery
  3. The Charnel-House blog: Nikolai Kolli and Le Corbusier’s Tsentrosoiuz building in Moscow (text & vintage images) . accessed 11.23.2013.
  • The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979).
  • “Arkhitektor N. Ia. Kolli.” Arkhitektura SSSR, 1964, no. 12.
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