Ilya Aleksandrovich Golosov

Ilya Aleksandrovich Golosov (born July 19 [July 31, New Style], 1883, Moscow, Russia—died Jan. 29, 1945, Moscow) was a Russian architect who worked in various styles but attained his highest distinction for the application to architecture of the artistic principles of Constructivism, a movement inspired by geometries of volume and of plane. Golosov studied at the Central Stroganov Industrial Art Institute (1898–1907) and afterward graduated from the Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (1912), both...