Iwan Iwanoff

Iwan Iwanoff (1919–1986), also known as Iwan Nickolow and Iwan Nickoloff Iwanoff, was born in Küsstendil (Kusestendil), Bulgaria, on 2 July 1919 and died on 7 October 1986 in Perth, Western Australia. Iwan Iwanoff studied architecture in Europe before arriving in Perth to work as an architect. He became renowned for his design characteristic which is mainly working with concrete blocks as an innovative way to. He was in his growing use of exposed concrete, close to Brutalism. But the jewel like, sculptural use of concrete at a small scale sets him in a mode of his own. Late Twentieth Century Brutalist. Iwan Iwanoff was born in Bulgaria into an artistic family, with his father, Nickolai Iwanow, a journalist and a poet, and his mother,...