In the history of building, Illarion Ivanov-Schitz is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Illarion Ivanov-Schitz as Russian architect (1865–1937).
Illarion Ivanov-Schitz was born at Mikhaylovka in 1865. His recorded nationality is Soviet Union. He trained at Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering.
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.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
Recognition followed: Order of Lenin.
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.
Illarion Ivanov-Schitz died in 1937, aged 72. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Order of Lenin
- Trained at Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
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