Building Russian Shanghai now has a brief biography of Alexander J. Yaron (Александр Иванович Ярон), the most significant Russian architect of the diaspora: https://sites.google.com/view/russianshanghai/architects/a-j-yaron
Yaron designed a wide variety of buildings, many of which were realized: a Catholic cathedral, an Eastern Orthodox church, a mosque, a beach hotel and a hai-alai auditorium... He built English villas, Slavic mansions, Chinese offices and Spanish mission houses. The only style Yaron despised was modernism, so he did not create a single art deco building – quite original for Shanghai!
Building Russian Shanghai: architect Alexander J. Yaron
Posts from This Journal “architects” Tag
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Austro-Hungarian Architect Networks in Tianjin and Shanghai (1918–1952)
Here is an interesting new article on the Austro-Hungarian architects in China, whose author Eduard Kögel is a Berlin-based architect and…
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Embroidery as architectural illustration
This blog has turned too much toward Constantinople, but it is the closest city to Shanghai that I know, so... Anyway, embroidered architectural…
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French Bund in Shanghai c. 1913.
“Thus we did approach by sea, like in old times, to watch all these things unfold.” Photo by Frederik G. Clapp., AGSL Collections…
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