Alexandr Vasilevich Vlasov belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Alexandr Vasilevich Vlasov as Soviet architect (1900–1962).
Alexandr Vasilevich Vlasov was born at Bolshaya Kosha in 1900. His recorded nationality is Soviet Union. He trained at Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect and urban planner.
His work is associated with stalinist architecture.
His best-known building is Vladimir Lenin monument, Kyiv. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" and Stalin Prize.
That the work was built in Soviet Union shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Alexandr Vasilevich Vlasov died in 1962, aged 62. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Vladimir Lenin monument, Kyiv
- Order of Lenin
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Movement: Stalinist architecture
- Trained at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
