Anatoly Gunst is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Anatoly Gunst as Russian architect (1858-1919).
Anatoly Gunst was born at Moscow in 1858. His recorded nationality is Russian Empire. He trained at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Russian Empire shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Anatoly Gunst died in 1919, aged 61. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
