Vladimir G. Schuchov
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| Vladimir G. Schuchov | |
| Born | August 28, 1853; Russia |
| Died | February 2, 1939; USSR |
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| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/architects/Vladimir_G._Schuchov.html |
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Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov, (August 28, 1853 - February 2, 1939) was a great Russian architect and engineer renowned for his pioneering works on new methods of analysis for structural engineering that led to breakthroughs in industrial design of oil reservoirs, pipelines, boilers, ships and barges. Shukhov is particularly reputed for his original designs of hyperboloid towers such as the Shukhov Tower in Moscow. Vladimir Shukhov was one of the first to develop practical calculations of stresses and deformations of beams and shells.
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Projects
- Adziogol Lighthouse, at near Chersson, Ukraine, 1911. GreatBuildings page
- An oil pipeline, the first in the world, between Balkhany and Cherny Gorod near Baku (12 km, 1878 complete, used by the "Branobel Company"). In 1904 they built the first Trans-Caucasian kerosene pipeline between Baku and Batum (800km long).
- Eight thin-shell structures exhibition pavilions for the Nizhny Novgorod Fair of 1896, covering the area of 27,000 m², and featuring an unorthodox water-tower that served as a model for more than 30 similar structures built in Imperial Russia, and thousands around the world now.
- About 200 original towers (hyperboloid towers) all over the world, the most famous being the Adziogol Lighthouse (near Chersson, Ukraine, 1911) and 160-meter-high Shukhov Tower in Moscow (1922).
- Spacious elongated shop galleries, bridged with innovative metal-and-glass vaults, notably the Upper Trade Rows (GUM) on Red Square in Moscow (1889-94), Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (1898-1912) and Petrovka Passage (1903-06) in Moscow.
- Enormous metal arch vaulting for the Municipal Railway Park (1908) and the Kievskiy Railway Station in Moscow (1912-17).
- The colossal hall of the Central Post Office, Moscow (1911-13).
- Several Constructivist projects, designed in collaboration with Konstantin Melnikov, notably the Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage (1926-28).
- About 500 bridges across the Volga, Yenisey, Dnieper, and other rivers.
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References
- "The Nijni-Novgorod exhibition: Water tower, room under construction, springing of 91 feet span", "The Engineer", № 19.3.1897, P.292-294, London, 1897.
- “Arkhitektura i mnimosti”: The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical-philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition”, Elizabeth Cooper English, Ph. D., a dissertation in architecture, 264 p., University of Pennsylvania, 2000.
- Die sparsame Konstruktion
- “Vladimir G. Suchov 1853-1939. Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion.”, Rainer Graefe, Ph. D., und andere, 192 S., Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1990.
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External Links
- Biography of Shukhov
- Architectural works of Shukhov
- Invention of Hyperboloid Structures
- The Shukhov Tower is part of the World heritage
- The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture
- Shukhov and Oil Industry
- Shukhov Tower Foundation
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