Augusts Malvess (2 November 1878,

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– 9 May 1951, Riga) was a Latvian architect. Augusts Malvess was born in Gulbene in northeastern Latvia and studied architecture at Riga Polytechnic Institute, today Riga Technical University. He graduated in 1906. The following two years he worked in the firm of Konstantīns Pēkšēns, and worked independently from 1909. He was a lecturer at the

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from 1919 to 1950. He was promoted to extraordinary professor there in 1939 and in 1944 he was promoted to full professor. As an architect he designed about twenty residential buildings in Riga (several in Art Nouveau style) in addition to public and civic buildings, as well as buildings in Dzērbene,

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and

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. In addition, he also published a number of scientific articles on the subject of architecture.

Gallery

Blaumaņa iela 5a, Tērbatas iela 23 25 Rīga.jpg, Former bank buildin at Blaumaņa iela 5, Riga. (1913) Klusā iela 11.JPG, Residential building at Klusā iela 11, Riga. (1911) RigaGertrudes90.jpg, Residential building at Ģertrūdes iela 90, Riga. (1913). Dzīvojamā ēka, Rīga, Tallinas iela 90 (2017).jpg, Residential building at Tallinas iela 90, Riga. (1913).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Malvess, Augusts Art Nouveau architects 1878 births 1951 deaths Architects from Riga People from Gulbene Municipality Academic staff of the University of Latvia Architects from the Russian Empire