Tamara Katsenelenbogen

(Learn how and when to remove this message)
Tamara Katsenelenbogen
Born1894
Dvinsk, Russian Empire
Died1976
Leningrad, Soviet Union
OccupationArchitect

Tamara Davydovna Katsenelenbogen (Russian: Тамара Давыдовна Каценеленбоген; 1894−1976) was a Soviet constructivist architect and urban planner.

Biography

Tamara Davydovna Katsenelenbogen was born in Dvinsk, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire (now Daugavpils, Latvia). Her brother, Nikolay Katzenellenbogen, was also a famous Jewish architect of the late 19th century. In 1911, Tamara Davydovna entered, and in 1916 graduated from the department of architecture of the Women's Polytechnic Institute - the first higher technical educational institution for women in the Russian Empire.[1]

In 1923 she graduated from the Architecture Faculty of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. She designed and built a number of buildings in Leningrad and other cities of the Soviet Union.[1]

Selected projects

Bateninsky residential development, Woodland Avenue, St. Petersburg

References

  1. ^ a b Fernandez Garcia et al. 2016, pp. 94–95.

Literature