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5 © Pavel Kuznetsov
Talk
ICONIC HOUSES LECTURE // Melnikov House: Saving an Avant-Garde Icon
24 Feb 2020
Regular hours
- Monday
- 06:00 – 22:00
Address
- 4800 Hollywood Blvd
- Los Angeles
California - 90027
- United States
The Melnikov House, designed by architect Konstantin Melnikov for himself and his family, is an icon of the Russian architectural avant-garde. The experimental cylindrical structure was built between 1927 and 1929 to test Melnikov’s concepts for mass-produced housing.
About
Hollyhock House is proud to host Pavel Kuznetsov, Director of Melnikov House for a lecture Melnikov House: Saving an Avant-Garde Icon at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre to discuss the history of Moscow’s Melnikov House, an icon of 20th-century Russian architecture, and the tragic life of the architect in a collectivist society
This free event includes a pre-lecture self-guided tour of Hollyhock House from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm followed by the lecture from 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm with Pavel Kuznetsov to discuss the history of the Melnikov House from inception through establishing the museum in 2014 and today’s preservation efforts. He will explore the newly-discovered information that uncovered the architectural, engineering, and philosophical ideas lying behind Melnikov’s ambitious plan to build an architectural manifesto in 1920s Soviet Russia.
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