Endeavoring to establish the world-class museum the Russian Avantgarde Foundation is involving leading specialists and experts from all over the world in the work on the Melnikov House Museum. They have formed the International Committee of Trustees for Melnikov House Museum.

Their unsurpassed expertise and determination make it possible to attain the main objective – launching the unique museum of the architectural masterpiece and its creator.

Committee Composition

1. Zaha Hadid - Architect, 2004 Pritzker Architecture Prize Winner (UK)
2. Rem Koolhaas - Architect, 2000 Pritzker Architecture Prize Winner (Netherlands)
3. Clementine Cecil - Journalist, Co-founder, Moscow Architecture Preservation Society (UK)
4. Jean Louis Cohen - Researcher, Architecture Theoretician (France)
5. Mikko Mansikka - Architect,President, Alvar Aalto Foundation (Finland)
6. Rolf Fehlbaum - President, Vitra Design Museum Company (Switzerland)
7. Gregory Revzin - Journalist, Architecture Critic (Russia)
8. John Stubbs - Vice-president, World Monument Foundation (US)
9. Ilya Kabakov - Artist (US)
10. Emilia Kabakov - Artist (US)
11. Petr Fomenko - Stage Director, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Petr Fomenko's Studio Theater Head (Russia)
12. Dmitry Shvidkovsky - Chancellor, Moscow Architecture Institute, Researcher in Architecture (Russia)
13. David Sarkisian - Director of the State Shchusev Architecture Museum
14. Peter Noever - C.E.O and Artistic Director, Kunstlerischer Leiter MAK (Austria)
15. Pavel Khoroshilov - Deputy Head, Mass Communications, Culture and Education Department at the RF Government Staff (Russia)
16. Andrei Gozak - Architect, Historian Specializing in Architecture, Researcher (Russia)
17. Ekaterina Karinskaya - Architect Konstantin Melnikov's Granddaughter (Russia)
18. Alvaro Siza - Architect,1992 Pritzker Architecture Prize Winner (Portugal)
19. Anke Zalivako - Architect, Historian of Architecture (Germany)
20. Maristella Casciato - Chair of the executive committee of DOKOMOMO international (Italy)
21. Natalia Dushkina - Architect, Professor of Moscow Architrectural Institute (Russia)

Statute of International Committee of Trustees for Melnikov House Museum

Participation in the International Committee of Trustees for Melnikov House Museum is offered to members of the Russian and world cultural elite.

The Committee Members should satisfy the following requirements:

1. A Committee Member should desire to be included in the Committee.
2. A Committee Member should be thoroughly familiar with the Melnikov's work and love it.
3. A Committee Member should participate in its activities on the voluntary basis, without any remuneration (except for travel expenses paid by the Russian Avantgarde Foundation).
4. A Committee Member should have no property or financial interests in Melnikov House or any part of the architect's legacy.

Committee Functions

Expert assessment of the Museum concept, overseeing the project implementation, the project results acceptance.

Each Committee Member shall be entitled to obtain all the information about the project from the Project Manager and the project principal.

Each Committee Member shall be entitled to summon an extraordinary Committee meeting to discuss urgent project issues.

Committee Meetings

The first meeting of the International Committee of Trustees for Melnikov House Museum, the main project of the Russian Avantgarde Foundation, was held on October, 8, in the house and museum of Architect Sir John Soane, London.
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