Moisei Ginzburg

Moisei Yakovlevich Ginzburg

Constructivist

Supporter of ‘disurbanism’

1892-1946

Founder of OSA Group (the Soviet Organization of Contemporary Architects) with Aleksander Vesnin

Key figure in the Russian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Buildings include:

Gosstrakh apartments, Moscow

Narkomfin Building Moscow with Ignati Milinis

Designer of the ‘Green City project’ with Mikhail Barsch, a radical rethink of how Moscow should develop

Part of the group of architects who developed the Crimean coastline

Government offices in Alma-Ata

Soviet delegate to CIAM 1928-1932

Image Moisei Ginzburg family archive