Georgy Krutikov belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Georgy Krutikov as Russian architect (1899-1958).
Georgy Krutikov was born at Voronezh in 1899. His recorded nationality is Soviet Union.
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 artist.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
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.
Georgy Krutikov died in 1958, aged 59. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
