Alexander Aleksandrovich Vesnin (1883-1959) was one of the leading figures of Russian Constructivist architecture. Together with his brothers Leonid and Viktor, he formed one of the most influential teams in Soviet architecture during the 1920s. Although he is remembered chiefly as an architect, he also worked as a theatre designer and painter, often collaborating with Lyubov Popova on designs for workers' festivals and for Tairov's theatre.
He exhibited in the pioneering Constructivist show 5×5=25 (1921) and, with Moisei Ginzburg, led the Constructivist OSA Group. He is especially known for his meticulous perspectival drawings, such as the 1924 project for the Leningrad Pravda building. Among the buildings completed by the brothers in the late 1920s were department stores, a club for former Tsarist political prisoners, and the Likachev Works Palace of Culture in Moscow.
Vesnin was an outspoken admirer of Le Corbusier, whose Tsentrosoyuz building he praised as the best building constructed in Moscow for a century. After the Soviet Union returned to Classicism, he took on no further major projects.