biography
pronunciation:
[lubetkin]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1901–90)
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| biography:
| Architect, born in Tbilisi, Georgia. He studied in Moscow, then in Paris, where he was influenced by Le Corbusier. In 1931 he moved to London and set up his own firm, Tecton. His major works include the Penguin Pool at London Zoo (1933), and Highpoint in Hampstead (1935), a block of high-rise flats which was praised by Le Corbusier as creating a new quality of high-rise housing. His Finsbury Health Centre (1938), a social experiment, is still in use as intended today. |
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