Hovhannes Khalpakhchian
Hovhannes Khalpakhchian (Armenian: Հովհաննես Խալփախչյան; Russian: Оганес Хачатурович Халпахчьян, Oganes Khachaturovich Khalpakhchian; August 1(14), 1907[1] – 1996) was a Soviet Armenian architect and architecture historian. Christina Maranci described him as a "major scholar of Armenian architecture", who stressed its local origins and development.[2]
Born in Nakhichevan-on-Don (Rostov-on-Don),[1][3] he was initially a practicing architect in the studio of Alexander Tamanian in Yerevan.[4] He designed several residential and public buildings.[1] He transitioned into academic research in the late 1930s. The main focus of his sixty-year scholarly career was the study of the history of Armenian architecture from antiquity to modern times.[4][1] He also edited major Soviet series on world architecture, including several volumes of the 12-volume General History of Architecture (1966-77).[3]
Armen Kazaryan and Igor Bondarenko described him as an outstanding expert on medieval Armenian architecture and a key figure at the Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning for several decades.[5]
He died in Moscow and was buried at the Moscow Armenian Cemetery.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d Babayan, L. [in Armenian] (1978). "ԽԱԼՓԱԽՉՅԱՆ Հովհաննես [Khalpakhchian Hovhannes]". Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia Vol. 4 (in Armenian). p. 707.
- ^ Maranci, Christina (1998). Medieval Armenian Architecture in historiography: Josef Strygowski and His Legacy (PhD thesis). Princeton University. pp. 273–276. OCLC 40827094.
- ^ a b Zaitzeva, N. N. (2017). "Календарь знаменательных и памятных дат Ростовской области [Calendar of significant and memorable dates in the Rostov region]". Donskoy Vremennik (in Russian). Don State Public Library.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ a b Dolbakyan, Emmanuel (November 2007). "Энциклопедист армянской архитектуры [Encyclopedist of Armenian architecture]". Noev Kovcheg (in Russian).
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ Bondarenko, I. A. [in Russian]; Kazaryan, A. Yu. (2011). "Архитектурное наследство: Памяти О.Х.Халпахчьяна [Architectural Heritage: In Memory of O.Kh.Khalpakhchyan]" (in Russian).
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ Bagdykov, Georgy (2017). "«Архитектура Нахичевани-на-Дону» ХАЛПАХЧЬЯНА ["Architecture of Nakhchivan-on-Don" by KHALPAKHCHYAN]". nnao.ru. Nakhichevan-on-Don Armenian Community.
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