Alexander Larin

In the words of his colleagues, Larin appears a mysterious, esoteric phenomenon: the sage, which is intended to be interspersed by architectural truths, a medium who knows how to catch the ideas worn in the air, theorist whose discovery is available to a narrow circle of dedicated. At the same time, he likes the least of all on a mining age owning secret knowledge. He does not have theoretical works. Implementation falls on the 70s of the twentieth century - the era, the architecture of which today does not cause enthusiastic reverence. When you look at the projects of Larina, it is unclear where this absolute senior authority comes from. Larin always worked as if not in Russia. His things are more or less fit in the context of Western architecture, not Soviet and post-Soviet. The fundamental principle of his work: "Architecture should not be beautiful, it must be appropriate.