Karl
Karlovich Gippius

He graduated from the Moscow school of painting (1889). Worked in architect. Bureau R. Klein in Moscow, 1896, the district architect, 1913-15 member of the Building Council under the Moscow. mountains. Council. Worked as a private architect. practice, according to his projects built apartment houses, mansions, prom. of the building. One of the leading masters of Moscow. modern. From 1910 pred. Mosk. photographic society. In the 1920s he was a staff architect Mosk. zoo, in 1925-27 designed it from DOS. structures. In 1927-28 designed holiday village "Straw Lodge" in Moscow.