Andrey Mikhailov
Position:Director
Employer:Architectural bureau "Close-up" (KPLN)
Country:Russia
Background
Andrey Mikhailov – co-founder and partner of the architectural bureau "Close-up Plan" (KPLN)
Candidate of Technical Sciences, Master of Engineering (The Institute of Civil Engineers), graduate of the MBA program at the MIRBIS Business School. Author of more than 20 scientific papers.
He participated in the calculations of unique facilities: the Moscow City complex, Vnukovo Airport, Arkhyz Airport, the first air harbor in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic.
Andrey Mikhailov's projects have been awarded major Russian and international prizes, such as the World Architecture Festival, Urban Design & Architecture Design Awards (UDAD Awards), "Architecture", "Golden Section", "Project Russia", the Moscow City Council Award, CRE, ArchWOOD.
He has been in charge of the Close-up bureau for more than 17 years. KPLN is one of the leading full—service architectural firms (Forbes TOP 30), among the top three in the TOP 50 architectural bureaus (Urban 2025 rating), and the best housing designers in Russia (TOP 20).ru 2025).
An expert in the management of design bureaus, in the field of IT in construction and project management, in the development of effective engineering solutions.
Author of his own course on architectural structures (MGAKHI named after V. I. Surikov), Associate Professor of the Department of "Building Mechanics" (MGSU).
He regularly gives lectures both at leading professional universities in Russia and at specialized business forums.
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