Nikolai Kolli is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Nikolai Kolli as Russian architect, Soviet urban planner (1894–1966).
Nikolai Kolli was born at Moscow in 1894. His recorded nationality is Soviet Union. He trained at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and Vkhutemas.
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.
Among his best-known works are Chistye Prudy metro station and Park Kultury. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
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.
Nikolai Kolli died in 1966, aged 72. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Chistye Prudy metro station
- Notable work: Park Kultury
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Trained at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and Vkhutemas
