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Langbard, Iosif (Grigor’yevich)
(b Bel’sk [now Bielsk Podlaski, Poland], 18 Jan 1882; d Leningrad [now St Petersburg], 3 Jan 1951). Belarusian architect. He studied from 1901 to 1906 in the architectural department of the Art School, Odessa, then from 1907 to 1914 under Aleksandr Pomerantsev in the architectural department of the Academy of Arts, St Petersburg. Between 1914 and 1917 he served as an engineer in the Russian army. After the October Revolution (1917) he produced a number of unexecuted designs for monuments, developing the ideas of ‘revolutionary romanticism’, as in the designs (1920, 1924; see Voinov, 1976, pp. 36, 37, 39) for a lighthouse monument in the port of Petrograd (now St Petersburg) and the design (1925) for the mausoleum of revolutionary fighters in Odessa. These works have clear associations with Piranesi’s architectural fantasies. In the design (1927; unexecuted) for the crematorium in Leningrad the surfaces of the enormous, stepped mass are given an unbroken rhythm of vertical folds and scoops. In the mid-1920s he joined the Constructivist architects, producing several unexecuted designs for industrial buildings and residential complexes.
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