The first monograph about the architect Dmitry Kryzhanovsky got the Golden sign on The XXX International Festival of Architecture "Zodchestvo 2022"

The XXX International Festival of Architecture "Zodchestvo 2022" 

Review-competition "The best printed publication about architecture and architects"

"Architect Dmitry Kryzhanovsky"

Golden sign

The publication was carried out on the initiative and with the financial support of the Charity Fund for Support of Culture and Art DICTUM FACTUM: Evgeny and Yulia Gerasimov.

Nominated: Best Album on Architecture and Architects

Author: Alexander Chepel

Photographing: Sergey Vesnin, Victor Savik, Ivan Smelov

The first monograph about the architect Dmitry Andreevich Kryzhanovsky (1871-1942) contains a biography, a description of the architectural heritage of the Art Nouveau period (1897-1910), the retrospective period (1910-1917), the Soviet period (1918-1942), a catalogue of all the architect’s projects and buildings, bibliography, name index. Project materials and documents stored in collections of archives and museums of Saint Petersburg, Vologda and Pskov are presented in the book.

Drawings, photos of exteriors and interiors, shots taken with Quadcopter by Ivan Smelov, Viktor Savik and Sergei Vesnin make for a vivid overview of this edition.  

The catalogue includes:

- more than 90 buildings constructed by Dmitry Kryzhanovsky in Petersburg-Leningrad and other cities of Russia and abroad;

- more than 50 different construction works of smaller scale (outbuildings, repairs, renovations, etc.);

- about 30 unimplemented projects (including competitive designs) executed independently and co-authored.