Established in Russia in 1991 and surely one of the most innovative and respected architectural practices in Moscow of today, ABD Architects provides a wide range of architectural, interior design and project management services. The office now employs a team of 55 highly-qualified professionals with work experience in Europe and the USA. ABD Architects has had long-standing contacts with leading Russian and Western consulting and architectural firms such as SPG&A, Gensler, NBBJ, Schneider + Schumacher, RTKL and Altoon+Porter. Since its foundation, the company has completed over a hundred projects of a diverse nature, from corporate interiors to large-scale buildings. Recent work includes the mixed-use ‘Mercedes-Benz Plaza’, ‘EuroPark’, retail centre, Interiors for the Credit Suisse First Boston and GNK ‘Nafta-Moscow’.
Introductory essay by Andrey Gozak – Moscow architect and architectural critic and author of the famous books on Ivan Leonidov and the ‘The Melnikov House’ (with J. U. Pallasmaa).
Texts by Andrey Kaftanov – architect and architectural historian, who has published numerous articles on modern architecture.
The volumes were designed and edited by EDAS Design Kommunalka, whose work in the architecture an dart sector has been published in the volume of the same name within the ‘Consequence Book Series on Fresh Architecture’.