Viktor Stepanovich Balikhin (1893-1953) - Soviet architect, co-founder and member of ASNOVA .
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Biography
He graduated from VHUTEMAS in 1924. Since the founding of the Main Department of VHUTEMAS in 1923, Balikhin became one of the teachers in the propaedeutic discipline "Space". In collaboration with other young teachers of the “Space” discipline (M. P. Korzhev, M. A. Turkus) Balikhin in the mid-1920s. developed a rationalistic theory of architectural composition (classification of elements of architectural composition; development of tasks "to the surface" - ignored as not related to architecture as a discipline operating with three-dimensional space - including the development of the theory of metric and rhythmic series).
Balikhin, in contrast to Ladovsky, to the formalist understanding of the architecture of rationalism, from the first years of its existence ASNOVA acted as an alternative leader of the organization, trying to form the core of rationalism in the Main Department. In 1928, with the formation of the Ladovsky Association of Urban Architects (ARU) and its subsequent exit from ASNOVA, Balikhin became the de facto leader of the latter. As part of the author's brigades ASNOVA Balikhin, projects of a monument to Lenin in Moscow were carried out (jointly with G. T. Krutikov, V. A. Lavrov, V. Popov, N. Travin, M. A. Turkus; 1924); All-Union Palace of Arts in Moscow (together with G. Borisov, V. F. Krinsky , V. A. Petrov, I. N. Tikhomirova, 1930); The Palace of Soviets (together with P. V. Budo, M. I. Prokhorova , M. A. Turkus, R. R. Iodko, F. T. Sevortyan, 1931).
In the 1930s, Balikhin worked at the All-Union Academy of Architecture, where he worked on the problems of an ensemble of workers' residential complexes and artistic problems of composition. In 1939, together with V.N. Simbirtsev, he built a pavilion of the Belarusian SSR for the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition [2] .
In the 1940s, after graduating from the Academy of Architecture, Balikhin continued theoretical studies of the problems of harmony, rhythm and composition in architecture.
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Literature
- S. O. Khan-Magomedov . Victor Balikhin. Moscow: Russian Avant-garde, 2010.
- Krinsky VF The emergence and life of the Association of New Architects // Soviet Architecture. 1969, No. 18. P. 20-28.