Rimma Aldonina

Russian architect and poet

Rimma Aldonina is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.

The record lists Rimma Aldonina as Russian architect and poet.

Rimma Aldonina was born at Moscow in 1928. Her recorded nationality is Soviet Union. She trained at Moscow Architectural Institute.

Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.

She is recorded as architect, poet and writer.

Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.

Recognition followed: Order of the Badge of Honour.

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.

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