Gozak, Andrey Pavlovich

In 1959 he graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute (MARCH), in 1969 - graduate school TSNIITIA . PhD in architecture . He worked in the 14th workshop of Mosproject-2 , designed the buildings of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses and the Central House of Cinema . Architect of the Samara Regional Library. He spent considerable time from spring to autumn in archaeological and ethnographic expeditions throughout the USSR. In 1982 - 1991 he was the editor and artist of the journal "Architecture of the USSR" . After the collapse of the USSR, completely abandoned the activities of the architect and was engaged in the history of architecture, architectural criticism, painting, photography, design ^{[2] [3]} .

The author of the first Soviet monograph on the Finnish avant-garde architect Alvar Aalto . Laureate of the Alvar Aalto Prize ( 1983 , the founder of the award is the Museum of Finnish Architecture). First visited Finland in 1963 ^[3] .

One of the leading researchers of the architecture of the Russian avant-garde , a specialist in Ivan Leonidov .

The magazine "Architectural Herald" wrote about Andrei Gozak:

All his life he could not sit in one place - including warm. He left the design institute for an archaeological expedition, from there - to an architectural magazine, etc. He was overcome by a passion for changing places, for a break in gradualness, but not only - [Andrei Gozak] was always distinguished by his independence of judgment and behavior and, not tolerating state bureaucracy and officialdom , never missed the occasion of their carnival flipping ^[1] .

He died on April 17, 2012 .

Architecture

Architect and designer of buildings in Moscow and the cities of the USSR.

The architectural creed of Andrei Gozak was space and light:

... The material and decor are secondary. Ladovsky said, space and mass are the beginnings of architecture, for me space and light. I love Alvar Aalto because he painted architecture with light. In general, I am a supporter of calm, simple, white buildings, in which the light state decides everything ^[4] .

He argued that architecture is born out of momentum.

... Only intuition and insight can be this impulse, not calculation, not mathematics, not rationo. The image is born in the fog, in the darkness, and this will always be a mystery ^[4] .

Painting

Engaged in painting since his youth. Initially, he was influenced by Paul Klee and painted geometric paintings. Then he developed his own style of translucent multilayer painting, in which the paper on the stretcher is primed with emulsion paint, and then, in a mixture with it, the artist writes “what is” - acrylic , watercolor , tempera . Work on one picture can take up to a month of time, since it requires a large number of subterfuges and valers.

Gozak himself spoke of his manner:

Glaze is superimposed layer upon layer until a special glow appears. For me, the glow of space and deep color is the main thing. Open color does not give this - Matisse , for example, is a great artist, but he has nowhere to go. My hero is, rather, Morandi . He wrote a frozen metaphysical life in which eternity exists. And the fact that he wrote bottles there - I do not see them, and for me there is no plot - there is only a special condition ^[4] .

He taught at the A. Lunacharsky State Institute of Theatrical Art (GITIS) the discipline "Design and the Technique of Project Implementation" ^[5] .

• Full member of the Russian Academy of Art Criticism ^[6]

In 2000, Andrei Gozak fell from a height of 7 meters, having received a complex fracture of the right ankle joint and a bruise of the left shoulder. Plaster was applied to the ankle joint, a shoulder bruise was left without special attention. After three months of shoulder pain and an acute respiratory viral infection , suppurative arthritis developed. An operation, drainage , and a four-week intravenous drip treatment were performed on the shoulder, but no improvement occurred, and the arm hung. An x-ray showed destruction of the humeral head . Gozak joined the line for shoulder joint prosthetics in Helsinki (the cost of the operation was to be 8-12 thousand dollars).

Due to severe pain in the shoulder, Andrei Gozak was referred by surgeon N.V. Zagorodni before prosthetics for rehabilitation to Peter Alexandrovich Popov, who began to relieve pain by affecting the points, but the main treatment was gymnastics according to the Popov method. Practicing for half an hour 3 times a day, Gozak achieved a gradual positive result, and the prosthetics operation was canceled.

In 2005, Andrei Gozak suffered a repeated shoulder injury, but, using the same gymnastics, he quickly recovered.

On the treatment of Andrei Gozak, the program “Joint prosthetics, can it be avoided?” Was broadcast on a specialized television channel ^[7] .

• Wife - Irina Vladimirovna Kokkinaki (1943-2004) - Soviet and Russian architectural critic ^[1] .

Personal exhibitions

• 2011 - “From the hut to the skyscraper”, VKHUTEMAS Gallery , Moscow ^{[4] [8]} .

Andrei Gozak's Publications

Monographs

• Gozak A.P. Alwar Aalto. - M .: Stroyizdat , 1976 .-- 176 p. - ( Masters of Architecture ). - 10,000 copies.

• Gozak A.P. Ivan Leonidov. - M .: Giraffe , 2002 .-- 240 p. - 1,500 copies - ISBN 5-89832-027-X .
• Gozak A.P., Krylova V.S. Ilya Chernyavsky. - M .: Three squares. Union of Moscow Architects, 2009. - 168 p. - 500 copies. - ISBN 978-5-94607-119-4 .
• Gozak A.P. House of Melnikov. - M .: S. E. Gordeev , 2010 .-- 104 p. - (Masterpieces of the avant-garde). - ISBN 978-5-91566-046-4 .
• Gozak A.P. Values ​​of life - values ​​of architecture. - M .: S. E. Gordeev , 2011 .-- 304 p. - 150 copies. - ISBN 978-5-91566-049-5 .
• Gozak A.P. Narkomtyazhprom Leonidova. - M .: S. E. Gordeev , 2011 .-- 72 p. - (Masterpieces of the avant-garde). - ISBN 978-5-4330-0003-9 .
• Gozak A.P. Alexander Larin. - M .: TATLIN, 2011 .-- 208 p. - (Masters of Soviet architecture). - ISBN 978-5-903433-15-5 .

Articles

Interview

• Davydova Natalia . Architect Andrei Gozak: “Moscow needs fresh architectural blood” // News . - August 10, 2007 .

About Andrei Gozak

• To the 70th anniversary of Andrei Gozak // Architectural Gazette . - 2006 . - No. 3 (90).
• Koryakovskaya Natalia . The space and light of Andrei Gozak // archi.ru. - May 15, 2011 .
• On April 17, the famous architect Gozak Andrei Pavlovich died suddenly. 1936-2012 // MARCHES . - April 17, 2012 .
• Marshak Ilya . The designer of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses Andrei Gozak died (inaccessible link) // Evening Moscow . - April 19, 2012 .
• Troshina Maria . In memory of Andrei Pavlovich Gozak // Modernism. - April 19, 2012 .
• Karen Balian . In memory of Andrei Pavlovich Gozak // archi.ru. - April 20, 2012 .
• Balakhov Faina . Requiem. Exhibition in memory of the historian of architecture, Professor MARCHI Andrei Gozak (inaccessible link) // Time Out . - May 25, 2012 .

• Andrey Gozak on archi.ru