Exhibition "Yakov Chernikhov. Images of Architecture" Automatic translate

"The ability to fantasize… is the first foundation of the new architecture."
Yakov Chernikhov

Jacob Chernikhov International Architectural Charitable Foundation and A.V. State Museum of Architecture Shchuseva presents the exhibition “Yakov Chernikhov. Images of architecture. " This is a unique opportunity for a long time to see the author’s architectural and graphic masterpieces in such a significant volume.

Yakov Chernikhov (1889-1951) - architect, graphic artist and teacher, a bright representative of the architectural futurology of Russia in the early Soviet period. He combined his best graphic compositions into three books of architectural fantasies published in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) at the turn of the 1920s and 30s. Unique in character and beauty, these publications brought him worldwide fame and established Chernikhov’s reputation as a brilliant composer of modern architecture.

Chernikhov’s addiction to man-made graphic art was based on his belief that graphic literacy was no less important than written. He was convinced that in the twentieth century, graphics will become the main international language of civilization, for decades anticipating the advent of op art and computer graphics with its research. In his interpretation, architectural graphics became an independent field of architectural creativity. Chernikhov’s compositions, their architectonics, strict sophistication, musicality and today have a magnetic effect on the viewer.

The exposition presents the main cycles of architectural and graphic masterpieces by Jacob Chernikhov: "Expatriatics", "Aristography", "Fundamentals of modern architecture", "Design of architectural and machine forms", "Architectural fantasies. 101 compositions ”,“ Palaces of Communism ”,“ Pantheons of the Great Patriotic War ”and“ Architectural Tales ”. Along with the graphics from the funds of the Museum of Architecture, the archive-collection of the Fund them. Y. Chernikhov and private collections, at the exhibition you can see personal tools, lifetime editions of books, the installation “Desktop of Jacob Chernikhov”; and more than thirty architectural models and models made by the Foundation on the basis of its compositions. Including a mock-up of the Cable Shop with a water tower of the Krasny Gvozdilshchik factory, built according to his project in 1930-1931.

The exhibition was prepared by the Jacob Chernikhov Foundation (ICIF), which was created in 1991 in order to promote innovative architectural concepts and initiatives of young architects of the world, student and children’s architectural creativity. In 2005, the Foundation established the Yakov Chernikhov International Architectural Prize, which is awarded once every two years.