Studio 44 Hardcover by Oleg Yawein

Product Details

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson (2017-04-11)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 312 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780500343098
• Item Weight: 2204.5 grams
• Dimensions: 27.94 x 25.91 x 3.05 cm

The first monograph to showcase the work of one of Russia’s most influential architectural firms

Studio 44 Architects is one of the largest private architectural firms in St. Petersburg and in Russia. Founded in 1991 and led by Nikita Yawein, the company now employs over 140 highly qualified specialists, including architects, restoration experts, structural designers, and engineers. Studio 44 has won over sixty prestigious awards and implemented over twenty-five public and residential building projects, including Ladozhsky Railway Station, the Atrium Business Centre at Nevsky 25, Nevsky 38 and Linkor business centers, the Grand Palace shopping gallery, the Novy Peterhof hotel, and the Boris Eifman Dance Academy in St. Petersburg; the Palace of Schoolchildren in Astana (Kazakhstan); and the Olympic Park Railway Station in Sochi.

Studio 44 Architects provides a detailed look at the thirty-five projects that the firm completed from 2000 to 2015 as well as an overview of the earliest projects and the birth of the firm.

About the Author

Aaron Betsky is a critic and teacher living in Philadelphia. Previously, he was professor and director of the School of Architecture and Design at Virginia Tech and, prior to that, president of the School of Architecture at Taliesin. A critic of art, architecture, and design, Betsky is the author of over twenty books on those subjects, including 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright, Making It Modern: The History of Modernism in Architecture of Design, Architecture Matters, and The Monster Leviathan: Anarchitecture.

Hans Ibelings is a Montreal-based architectural historian and critic, and the editor and publisher of The Architecture Observer.

Georgi Stanishev is an architect, publicist, and editor based in Sofia.