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Iwan Iwanoff (Iwan Nickolow Iwanow) was born on 2 July, 1919 in Kyustendil, Bulgaria, is an Australian modernist architect. Discover Iwan Iwanoff's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

Popular As Iwan Nickolow Iwanow
Occupation Architect
Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 2 July, 1919
Birthday 2 July
Birthplace Kyustendil, Bulgaria
Date of death 7 October, 1986
Died Place Perth, Western Australia
Nationality Bulgaria

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1919

Iwan Iwanoff (Иван Иванов; 2 July 1919 – 7 October 1986) also known as Iwan Nickolow (Иван Николов) and Iwan Nickoloff Iwanoff (Иван Николов Иванов), born in Kyustendil, Bulgaria and died in Perth, Western Australia, was an architect known for working in the Brutalist style.

Iwan Iwanoff studied architecture in Europe before arriving in Perth to work as an architect.

He became renowned for his design characteristic which is mainly working with concrete blocks.

Iwan Iwanoff was born in Bulgaria into an artistic family, with his father, Nickolai Iwanow, a journalist and a poet, and his mother, Maria, née Schopowa.

Originally named Iwan Nickolow Iwanow, he changed it to Iwan Nickoloff Iwanoff during his educational years, and shortened it later to Iwan Iwanoff.

After enduring a period of training in the military, Iwan Iwanoff studied fine arts under a famous Bulgarian Watercolourist and was himself a fine painter.

As a result of his talents, he was offered a scholarship to study Fine Arts.

1941

In 1941, thanks to his father's advice, he made a decision to study architecture at the Technische Hochschule of Munich, Germany.

1946

He designed an outstanding chapel for the final project which brought him high praise when graduating with a Diploma of Engineering and Architecture in 1946.

With his remarkable abilities in drawings and innovation in expressing his design, Iwan Iwanoff soon became a well known architect and his concept was that "architecture was an art".

1947

He married Dietlinde Hildegunde Zenns on 25 October 1947 in Laufen, Germany.

Iwan Iwanoff worked in Laufen as a caricature painter in the immediate post-war period before working with Emil Freymuth, a modernist architect in Munich, Germany.

1950

Leaving Germany with the help of the International Refugee Organization, Iwan Iwanoff and his wife left Europe on the SS Fairsea which left Naples on 7 February 1950, and settled in Fremantle, Western Australia on 2 March 1950.

His Munich qualifications were not recognised in Australia.

But shortly after, he gained employment under Krantz and Sheldon as a draftsperson.

Krantz and Sheldon were a large commercial architectural company which had a major focus on designing flats in Perth.

Iwanoff did some private architectural projects during this time.

1956

He became a citizen of Australia in 1956.

1960

He obtained a transfer to the Melbourne architectural firm of Yuncken, Freeman Bros, Griffiths & Simpson in 1960.

He transferred to Melbourne with the help of an old friend from Bulgaria, who himself had studied with Iwan and had emigrated to Australia.

The reason for his brief stay in Melbourne, was to obtain registration, after several unsuccessful attempts in Western Australia.

1961

After visiting Western Germany, he briefly joined Bund Deutscher Architekten Organization (Federation of German Architects) before returning to Perth, to work with Krantz & Sheldon, in December 1961.

1963

In 1963, he started his own business which was known as The Studio of Iwanoff.

He had become a member of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 1963 and soon became a fellow in 1972.

He was interested in exploring concrete blocks in various ways which allowed him to create high quality designs, especially in houses.

Although he has been described as working in the Brutalist style, this only reflects the sui generis nature of his work and the difficulty of fitting him into recognised architectural genres.

While he favoured the aesthetic effect of unadorned concrete blocks, giving his buildings a superficial resemblance to concrete brutalist works, he had nothing to do with the brutalist ethic of prioritising and emphasizing the structural and functional aspects of architecture over its aesthetic side.

Rather than eschewing art and aesthetics as the brutalists at least claimed to, Iwanoff remained an artist throughout his life, and took great care in deciding just how far individual blocks should protrude or recede, sometimes arranging them with his own hands on site during construction.

His intention was not to push a theory or reject tradition but to embody what he saw as the timeless traditions of art in contemporary form.

Indeed, his emphasis on ornamentation and his playfulness with texture, light and shade place him, if anything, in the Rococo tradition, one at polar opposites to the spare modernism of his time and place.

1986

Iwan Iwanoff died in Perth on 7 October 1986.

His body was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery.

1991

An exhibition of most of his works was presented at the State Archives of Western Australia in 1991.