Hawaii Five-Oh!: Architect Vladimir Ossipoff
By Diana Cook
Sometimes referred to as the “Frank Lloyd Wright of Hawaii”, Vladimir Ossipoff left an indelible architectural footprint through out the Hawaiian Islands. The son of a Russian diplomat, Ossipoff attended the University of California, Berkeley. After graduating in 1931, he moved to Hawaii where he practiced architecture until his death in 1998. His modernist homes and commercial structures pay homage to the tropical landscapes they inhabit.
A retrospective exhibit, Hawaiian Modern: the Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff, was assembled by the Honolulu Academy of Arts and traveled to the Gallery at the Yale University School of Architecture and the German Museum of Architecture in Frankfurt. A 287-page catalogue, also entitled Hawaiian Modern: the Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff, and a film, True to Form, Vladimir Ossipoff Architect, accompanied the exhibit details of the exhibit can be found at HawaiianModern.org
