New materials regarding research in the fields of architecture and urban construction are being presented. The authors also focus on the history of the creation of little-known buildings of interest, on the development of local architectural traditions, on new attributions, and introduce recently discovered archive materials. A number of papers are dedicated to the issues of architectural and urban planning development of historical towns and cities or study the formation of architectural ensembles. The edition also includes papers that are devoted to theoretical historical-architectural problems, to biographies of architects, or analyze artistic approaches and concepts.
Issue 73
I. E. Pechenkin, O. S. Shurygina.
Design and Construction of the Moscow Post Office Building (1910–1912) in the Light of Archival Sources
The article is dedicated to the history of design and construction of one of the most important early 20th century Moscow’s buildings: the Post Office. Despite its great popularity, the available literature and official documents contain contradictory and unreliable information about the building. The archival research has allowed the authors to reconstruct the process of development of the Moscow’s Post Office project, to specify the construction dates, to clarify the names of the architects, to identify a range of contractors and suppliers and to renounce the strong opinion about the A. V. Bari’s company and engineer V. G. Shukhov’s involvement in the construction in particular.
Keywords:
Moscow, 20th century, Post Office, O. R. Munz, Vesnin, Neoclassicism, Neo-Byzantine style, light beams, metal structures, LMZ, archival research.
Pechenkin Ilia Evgenievich,
Ph. D. (Art History), Russian State University for the Humanities, head of the department of the History of Russian art; Scientific Research Institute of the Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning (branch of the Central Institute for Research and Design of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation), senior research fellow.
E-mail: pech_archistory@mail.ru
Shurygina Olga Sergeevna,
independent researcher.
E-mail: olia85@list.ru
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