Alexander Zelenko
Alexander Ustinovich Zelenko | |
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Samara , 1899-1903Communal Club for working children in Moscow, 1907 |
Alexander Ustinovich Zelenko (
Samara and Moscow, he later joined the camp of rationalists
and focused on perfecting school and museum designs.
Biography
Alexander Zelenko grew up in a family of
Fyodor Shekhtel's firm in Moscow
.
Zelenko relocated to
Samara, bringing Art Nouveau to this Volga town. For a while, he enjoyed steady flow of commissions and the title of Town Architect (1899-1900[1]).[2] Later, he taught in graphic arts in Moscow, travelled to United States
in 1903-1904; in this period, Zelenko switched from architectural practice to education.
In 1905 Zelenko joined educators
Hundertwasser.[4] This club looked after the working teenagers of Moscow's blue-collar North End, and was part of a larger effort to create a new social and educational center in then remote part of Tverskoy and Meshchansky
Districts.
Embassy of Syria
Settlement was organized in separate boys and girls groups of 12. Each group selected their training schedule, and shaped its own code of conduct. Vadkovsky lane house integrated Settlement program with traditional kindergarten for working families and a two-year junior school. The arts and crafts courses, licensed to "A.U.Zelenko, Architect", catered to around 200 children. Although Zelenko abstained from active politics, police disbanded Settlement on May 1, 1908; Zelenko was jailed for a few months and had to flee to United States again. Upon his return in 1910, he again worked with Shatsky, lectured at the
Khamovniki
medical campus and other buildings.
After the
Russian Revolution of 1917, and until his death in 1953, Zelenko worked in various Soviet educational institutions, notably in setting architectural standards for schools and kindergartens. Zelenko collaborated in the Museum Commission (1919–1931), designing exhibitions for children (1925–1929) and promoting Alfred Lichtwark's Museumpaedagogic concept.[5] Zelenko, then in his sixties, also collaborated with Nikolai Ladovsky on his Linear city urban concept.[6]
Buildings
- 1900 Reshetov House, Samara, Kuibyshevskaya, 48
- 1903 Kurlin House, Samara, Frunze, 159 ([1], currently Art Nouveau Museum)
- 1900s Permyakov House, Samara, Molodogvardeyskaya 70
- 1900s Own House, Samara, Samarskaya 179
- 1905 Commercial College, Samara, corner of Molodogvarseyskaya and Ulyanovskaya
- 1905 Interiors - Plekhanov Russian Economic University)
- 1900s Settlement schools in Saratov region
- 1900s Moscow, Tverskoy Boulevard, 6 (rebuilt, lost all original exterior)
- 1907 Communal club for the working children, Moscow, Vadkovsky Lane
- 1910 Pfeffer House, Sokolniki, Moscow (destroyed)
- 1910 Loskov House, Moscow, Mansurovsky Lane (Now houses the Embassy of Syria in Moscow)
- 1911 Kelyina Kindergarten (with I.I.Kondakov), Moscow, Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street
- 1921 Hodel Residence & Tea House, South Pasadena (Hermon), Los Angeles
External links
- Zelenko drafts and historical photographs www.all-photo.ru
- Russian: City Architects of Samara www.samgtu.ru
- Russian: Zelenko Kindergarten, detailed photos www.o-moskve.narod.ru
- Photographs of Hodel Residence and Tea House, Los Angeles, 1921 [2]
References
- ^ Russian: City Architects of Samara, www.samgtu.ru Archived 2007-03-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Russian: "Building complex and architecture in Samara Region: yesterday, today, tomorrow" book.zodchiy.ru Archived 2007-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Russian: Второв, O.A., "Начало продолжения.Российское предпринимательство и российская социал-демократия. Библиотечка Общества купцов и промышленников" Москва, 2003 www.okipr.ru
- ^ Russian: Иконников, А.В., "Архитектура Москвы. ХХ век", М, 1984, p.30-32
- ^ German: www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de Archived 2007-04-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Russian: Глазычев, В.Л., "Россия в петле модернизации", Chapter 9