18 Facts About Melnikov House

In 1930s, Melnikov House refused to conform with the rising Stalinist architecture, withdrew from practice and worked as a portraitist and teacher until the end of his life.

Melnikov House's father, Stepan Illarionovich Melnikov, originally from Nizhny Novgorod region, was a road maintenance foreman, employed by the Moscow Agricultural Academy.

Konstantin Melnikov House later praised his father, who noticed the little boy's addiction to drawing and regularly brought him scrap paper for drawing from the academy.

Melnikov House's recommended Konstantin's drawings to Chaplin, who was so impressed that he hired the teenager to his firm and paid for his art studies.

Melnikov House studied at the School for 12 years, first completing General Education, then graduating in arts and Architecture .

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Melnikov House married Anna Yablokova in 1912; they had two children, born in 1913 and 1915.

Melnikov House's first success in architecture was a 1922 entry to a workers' housing contest.

In 1925 Melnikov House designed and built the Soviet pavilion at the Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes.

Still in Paris, Melnikov House designed two privately commissioned versions of a ramped garage that never got past the conceptual drawing stage.

The second In Moscow, Melnikov House saw a new fleet of Leyland buses hoarded in a yard in Zamoskvorechye, and immediately proposed his concept to the city.

Melnikov House later called this project "the start of my Golden Season".

Absence of public contests for these buildings was favorable to Melnikov House, who was promoted by enthusiastic trade union commissioners, regardless of design complexity or political and artistic affiliations.

Melnikov House had a chance to build practically exactly as planned, with very little changes by the client .

Melnikov House's clients were not competent in exact functions of these buildings, thus each Melnikov House draft is a functional program with different balance between main hall and other space.

Melnikov House's final public statement was a 1936 contest entry for the Soviet pavilion at 1937 World Expo in Paris.

Melnikov House was not exactly forgotten; on the contrary, his Rusakov Club and Arbat house were present in many Soviet textbooks as examples of Formalism.

Melnikov House returned to portrait painting and lectured at engineering colleges.

Melnikov House died at the age of 84 and was interred in the Vvedenskoye Cemetery in the Lefortovo District of Moscow.