Born in the town of Belsk, Grodno province of the Russian Empire, in a Jewish family.
Langbard Iosif Grigor’evich
January 6th (18th), 1882 - January 3rd, 1951Timeline
He graduated from a local gymnasium.
He studied at the architectural department of Odessa Art College.
He moved to St. Petersburg, where he successfully passed the exams at the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts at the Faculty of Architecture.
He passed the diploma project “The building of the State Council of the Russian Empire”.
The Langbard team received the first prize in the competition of the Leningrad Provincial Committee for a project for the Moscow-Narva region.
He carries out projects at various competitions: a three-apartment building for workers of the Red Triangle factory in Leningrad, a theater and a club in Yekaterinoslav, a house of culture in Vyatka, a people's house in Rastyapino (Dzerzhinsk), a Vasileostrovsky house of culture in Leningrad, and a theater in Kharkov.
He won the all-Union competition for the best project of the Government House of the Belarusian SSR. He completed the building projects of the Institute of Mineral Raw Materials in Moscow, mechanical laundries, a dispensary and a kitchen factory, as well as the Botkin Infectious Diseases Hospital in Leningrad.
In the early 1930s he received the first large orders for construction in Belarus and Ukraine. In Minsk he was invited to design the buildings in the central part of the city. Langbard proposed models of three buildings: the Government House of the Byelorussian SSR, the State Opera and Ballet Theater of the Byelorussian SSR and the House of the Red Army (modern House of Officers). For this ensemble of the Government House, Joseph Langbard was awarded the honorary title “Honored Artist of the Belarusian SSR”.
He took up the processing of the building design of the Academy of Sciences of the Belarusian SSR, developed by G. Lavrov.
He won the Grand Prix of the World Exhibition in Paris.
He was awarded the Soviet Order of the Badge of Honor for his work on plans for the reconstruction of Minsk and Gomel.
He taught at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, now - Repin Institute in St. Petersburg.
Noticeable works
- Cinema and theatre complex of the town of Orsha(1930).
- Government Houses in Minsk (1934—1937).
- The house of the Red Army in Minsk(1934—1939).
- The National Opera and Ballet theatre in Minsk (1937—1938).
- The House of Soviets in Mogilev (1938—1939).
- Belarusian Academy of Science (1935—1939).
- Foreign Ministry, Kyiv (1939).
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