Ivan Fomin practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Ivan Fomin as Russian architect and architectural historian (1872-1936).
Ivan Fomin was born at Oryol in 1872. His recorded nationality is Russian Empire. He trained at Imperial Moscow University and Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts.
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 and architectural historian.
His work is associated with art nouveau and neoclassicism.
Among his best-known works are Krasnye Vorota and Teatralnaya. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
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.
Ivan Fomin died in 1936, aged 64. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Krasnye Vorota
- Notable work: Teatralnaya
- Movement: Art Nouveau and Neoclassicism
- Trained at Imperial Moscow University and Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts
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