Architect P.I. Goldenberg and His Contribution to the Formation of the Principles of Architectural and Spatial Organization of a Residential Quarter in the USSR in the 1930s

Abstract

The article is devoted to recreating the biography and creative path of the architect Peter Isaakovich Goldenberg (1902-1971).

His name is almost forgotten today due to various circumstances, despite the fact that many of his scientific works were actively used by both architectural historians and specialists in the history of Moscow's development. P.I. Goldenberg's personal documents and manuscripts, preserved in the architect's Fund in the Russian state archive of Economics, allowed to restore the key dates of his life and work in the review period. They also helped determine the range of issues that were studied by the architect, who, due to circumstances, chose scientific activity as the main sphere of his interests. This article focuses on the publications of P.I. Goldenberg, as well as various materials deposited in his archive and related to the formation of the principles of the architectural and spatial organization of a residential quarter in the USSR in the 1930s. The architect began research in this area by order of the Planning and land Department of the Moscow Soviet in 1931, and subsequently almost without interruption, continued until 1941, despite the change of jobs - in the Architectural and Planning Department of the Moscow Soviet, the Academy of public utilities, Department of planning of the Moscow Soviet, the Academy of architecture. And although P.I. Goldenberg was not the only specialist in this field in the USSR, his publications were published throughout the decade, and allow us to trace how ideas about the principles of the architectural and spatial organization of a residential quarter changed, and what problems architects faced when developing residential development projects during the 1930s.