Dmitri Sergejewitsch Chmelnizki, Jg. 1953, Architekt, Architekturhistoriker und Publizist. Studium am Polytechnischen Institut Duschanbe und am Institut für Malerei, Bildhauerei und Architektur Leningrad. 2003 Promotion an der Technischen Universität Berlin. Publikationen zur Architektur-, Kunst- und Militärgeschichte der UdSSR und zur postsowjetischen Gesellschaft.

The fantastical oeuvre of one of the most important artists of Russian constructivism. This volume presents previously unpublished graphic works and personal documents of the famous Russian constructivistYakov Georgievich Chernikhov (1889 1951) from the archive of his son, Dmitry Yakovlevich Chernikhov, and from the archive of Sergei Tchoban. The typeface tables, drawings and sketches, as well as over one hundred ornaments shown here revealYakov Georgievich Chernikhov as an ingenious graphic artist and architect, as a passionate and highly committed teacher and, above all, as an ardent advocate of imagination as the creative force behind every creative process: a visionary universal artist in the tradition of Italian Giovanni Piranesi and a forerunner of famous architects such as Bernard Tschumi or Zaha Hadid. With an introductory essay by the respected architectural historian, Dmitry Sergeyevich Khmelnitsky.