Biography of the architect Dushkin

He argued that architecture should focus on constant development, renewal, creation of new forms, and he himself was an innovator and seeker who perfectly knew and used all the possibilities of modern construction equipment. At the same time, all the searches of the modern architectural language went in his work in parallel with the development and interpretation of the architectural heritage.

Alexey Nikolaevich Dushkin was born on December 11, 24 in the Kharkov province, in the family of an agronomist. From the year his independent life begins, he works as a loader and technician-builder in Kharkov. After some time, Dushkin enters the chemical faculty of the local technological institute. Then he switches to the architectural department of the construction institute.

Alexey finishes training in the year. Having participated in competitions for the Moscow Palace of Soviets and the Radio Palace in the years, he moved to Moscow. And since the year, Dushkin has been designing the Moscow metro stations - “Palace of Soviets” now “Kropotkinskaya” - in the year, “Revolution Square” - years, “I. Stalin Plant” now “Avtozavodskaya”, years, “Novoslobodskaya”, being the main architect of the metro -project and metro building, as well as the Central Architectural Workshop of the People's Commissariat of the USSR, the USSR Ministry of Transport.

For some of his projects, he received Stalin's prizes. The underground architecture of stations designed by Dushkin - especially the Kropotkinskaya and Mayakovskaya - belongs to the landmark patterns of the "Stalin Neoclassica", which comes closer to the international "AR deco". The projects executed under his leadership formed the basis of a number of station buildings, resolved in the spirit of the post -war Russian “Triumph style”.

So, among the famous creations of Dushkin - railway stations in Simferopol and Dnepropetrovsk, Sochi and Bryansk, Yevpatoria, the large urban planning ensembles created by him are no less famous in Moscow - with a high -rise building on the Red Gate Square with B. Mezentsev and the Square Square department store. In parallel with work, he was engaged in pedagogical activities - he taught in the Moscow Architectural Institute in years.

Alexey Nikolaevich Dushkin died on October 8 in Moscow, at the age of 73, was buried in the Armenian cemetery of the capital. Persons of the day March 17: - Gotlib Daimler German engineer, designer and industrialist.