...is up on Building Russian Shanghai.

In his autobiography, Pakidoff mentions starting as Draughtsman at Elliott Hazzard in 1930 and attending a correspondence course in Architecture in 1933-1937. He failed to graduate because of the shortage of tuition money, but in 1937 he was hired as Assistant Architect by “a British construction firm” and ( Read more... )

I have this little series of photos, purchased on Ebay, showing the visit of a Soviet delegation to Shanghai in 1954 - one of the shots shows the semi-built Sino-Soviet Friendship Hall - and now I wonder whether some of these people are the architects Viktor Andreev and Kaleria Kislova, the engineer Lev Gochman and the sculptors Lev Kerbel and Lev ( Read more... )

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1932. Family troubles in a small country (Finland): "All the normal people are going to Shanghai to protect their interests and to grab something, but you are doing nothing, you fool!"


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