George tsypin olympics 2020

American stage designer, sculptor and architect

George Tsypin is an American stage designer, sculptor and architect. He was an artistic director, production designer and coauthor of the script for the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014.

Early life and education

Tsypin was born in Kazgorodok, Kazakhstan (former Soviet Union), where his parents were in internal exile after being released from GULAG as political prisoners.^[1]

George Tsypin graduated from the Moscow Institute of Architecture in 1977, and in the same year, he emerged as a prize-winner at the New and Spontaneous Ideas for the Theatre of the New Generation competition in Paris.

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Since 1979, he has lived and worked in New York. In 1984, he graduated in set design from New York University.^[2][3]

Career

George Tsypin is a sculptor, architect and designer of opera, film and video.

He won an International Competition of "New and Spontaneous Ideas f