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LADO ALEXI - MESKHISHVILI
Lado Alexi-Meskhishvili is one of the most outstanding architects, whose creative work has left a significant mark on Georgia, particularly in Tbilisi. Alexi-Meskhishvili was destined to work during a very interesting time period.
He obtained his architectural education in Georgia (1933-1939), at the then Faculty of Construction at the Georgian Polytechnical Institute named after Kirov.
Two significant changes occurred in the field of Soviet architecture during the period when Lado Alexi-Meskhishvili studied and worked - the introduction of socialist realism (the 1930s), which supported designing national features and often directly pushed for decorativeness; and later, the USSR resolution "On the Elimination of Excesses in Design and Construction" (1955), which developed speedy and economical industrial construction while creating the basis for simplicity and strict forms of expression, therefore banning all those decorative elements that distinguished