Born in Moscow, Alexander Brodsky graduated from the Moscow Institute of Architecture (MarchI) in 1978. At the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, he collaborated with the artist Ilya Utkin and took part in public competitions. It is associated with the “paper architecture” movement, which opposes the standardized production of mass housing. The scenarios that he then developed were inspired by the engravings of prisons by Giovanni Battista Piranesi from the 18th century. 

In the 1990s, he traveled regularly to New York, where he settled in 1996. Returning to Moscow in 2000, he opened his own architectural studio there.

 Alexander Brodsky works on the imagination of the city and its becoming ruin in the form of drawings, plans and installations. His work was presented at the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale (2006).