Nikolai Ladovsky

Nikolai Ladovsky
Born	(1881-01-15)15 January 1881 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	18 October 1941(1941-10-18) (aged 60) Moscow, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian Empire, USSR
Alma mater	Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
Occupation	Architect
Practice	VKhUTEMAS, United Workshops

Nikolai Alexandrovich Ladovsky (Russian: Николай Александрович Ладовский; 15 January 1881 – 18 October 1941) was a Russian avant-garde architect and educator, leader of the rationalist^[1] movement in 1920s architecture, an approach emphasizing human perception of space and shape. Ladovsky is known as the founder of modern Soviet and Russian schools of architectural training; his classes of 1920–1932 in VKhUTEMAS shaped the generation of Soviet architects active throughout the period of Stalinist architecture and subsequent decades.