(1927, Tbilisi – 1997, Tbilisi )
Historian of Architecture and Art Critic. In 1948 he graduated from the Georgian Polytechnical Institute, department of Architecture. In 1949-1985 he worked at the G. Chubinashvili Institute of History of Georgian Art and in 1986-1996 he was Director of the same Institute; in 1961-1985 he lectured at the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts; in 1974-1981 he was Chairman of the Artists Union of Georgia; Prof. Dr., Member of the Georgian