A Call for Criticism Authors Alexander Rappaport Union of Moscow Architects; Union of Designers of Russia Downloads PDF (Russian) DOI: https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.51.1107 Published 2017-03-31 Issue No. 51 (2017): oh sport Section Short articles How to Cite A Call for Criticism. (2017). Project Baikal, 14(51), 10-10. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.51.1107 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Keywords: architectural criticism, absence of architectural criticism, journalism, model of ideal architectural criticism, equality of development of the author and the critic Abstract Architectural criticism did not exist in the USSR. It did not exist in the history of architecture either. It can be observed neither in the preset-day West nor in Russia. The place of architectural criticism is occupied by architectural journalism. An ideal architectural criticism supposes that the authors and their critics should be equally developed within the sphere of the given culture. (In literature of the 19th century, Pushkin was a great poet and, at the same time, a great critic.) There have not been any great critics in architecture.