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Levinson, Yevgeny (Adol’fovich)
(b Odessa, 19 Oct 1894; d Leningrad [now St Petersburg], 21 March 1968). Russian architect, urban planner and teacher of Ukrainian birth. He studied at the Academy of Arts (1923–7), St Petersburg, under Ivan Fomin and Vladimir Shchuko. During this period he also experimented with stage design and book illustration, which influenced his approach to architecture. His diploma design (1927) for the monument to the leaders of the October Revolution paid tribute to academic traditions, but Levinson was subsequently influenced more by Constructivism. His severely geometrical Palace of Culture (1930) on Kirov [now Kamenoostrovsky] Prospect was followed by the residential block (1931–5; with Igor’ Fomin) on the embankment of the River Karpovka, both in Leningrad. The latter is a monumental and picturesque building combining elements of Russian Neo-classicism with the Constructivist influences of its reinforced-concrete construction and stepped composition. In 1933 Levinson and Fomin headed the architectural workshop of the Lenproyekt Trust, where they designed an extensive scheme in Shchemilovka, a new residential district. Their buildings there, notably the local Soviet of People’s Deputies (1935), the multi-storey residential buildings (1937) on Moskovsky Prospect and the buildings (from 1936) on Ivanovskaya Street, combine innovation with tradition. The classicist element became increasingly dominant in Levinson’s work, for example in the residential building (1931–9) on Petrovskaya Embankment, the façade of which has a giant order colonnade echoing the architectural panorama on the River Neva.
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