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Gegello, Aleksandr (Ivanovich)
(b Yekaterinoslav [now Dnepropetrovsk], 22 July 1891; d Moscow, 11 Aug 1965). Russian architect of Ukrainian birth. From 1911 to 1920 he studied in the Institute of Civil Engineers, Petrograd (later Leningrad, now St Petersburg), and then, from 1920 to 1923, at the Academy of Arts, Petrograd. From 1915 he worked as assistant to IVAN FOMIN, who had a profound influence on him. Gegello built the residential complexes (1925–7) on Prospekt Stachek and Traktornaya Street, Leningrad, with G. A. Simonov (1893–1974), Aleksandr Nikol’sky and D. L. Krichevsky (1892–1942), which are characteristic of ‘Proletarian Classicism’ in their restrained, economical forms. In his building of the Gor’ky House of Culture for the Workers of the Moskovsko-Narvsky District (1925–7; with Krichevsky; see ST PETERSBURG, fig. 5), Leningrad, he played an important role in the creation of a new type of public building. The nucleus of its symmetrical structure was formed by the 2000-seat amphitheatre, while its architecture is a concise version of neo-classical forms. His career then entered a Constructivist phase with the Botkin Hospital (1927–8) in Leningrad, which was organized in pavilions, and the House of Technical Studies (1930), on a site near his earlier Gor’ky House of Culture, Leningrad. Returning to a modernized neo-classicism, in the 1930s, he designed the Gigant Cinema (1933–5; with Krichevsky) in Leningrad; and between 1935 and 1938 schools on Prospect Stachek, Mokhovaya and Kalyayeva streets, and the baths on Tchaikovsky Street, all in Leningrad. After World War II he was involved in the restoration of the historic Neo-classical buildings of Leningrad. He was also an initiator of mass industrialized construction, as in the large-panelled buildings (1949–51) in the Moskovsky district of Leningrad designed with S. V. Vasil’kovsky (1892–1960). From 1950 he worked in Moscow on theoretical problems.
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