Hovhannes Khalpakhchian
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Hovhannes Khalpakhchian (Armenian: Հովհաննես Խալփախչյան; Russian: Оганес Хачатурович Халпахчьян, Oganes Khachaturovich Khalpakhchian; August 1(14), 1907[1] – 1996) was a Soviet Armenian architect and architecture historian. Christina Maranci described him as a "major scholar of Armenian architecture", who stressed its local origins and development.[2]
Born in Nakhichevan-on-Don (Rostov-on-Don),[1][3] he was initially a practicing architect in the studio of Alexander Tamanian in Yerevan.[4] He designed several residential and public buildings.[1] He transitioned into academic research in the late 1930s. The main focus of his sixty-year scholarly career was the study of the history of Armenian architecture from antiquity to modern times.[4][1] He also edited major Soviet series on world architecture, including several volumes of the 12-volume General History of Architecture (1966-77).[3]
Armen Kazaryan and Igor Bondarenko described him as an outstanding expert on medieval Armenian architecture and a key figure at the Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning for several decades.[5]
He died in Moscow and was buried at the Moscow Armenian Cemetery.[6]