education

Abstract

Nobody knows anything for sure.

Looking at the guide’s back, wide and mature,

think that you’re looking into the future, and strive

to keep your distance. Life

is actually a distance between today and

tomorrow, that is the future.

Joseph Brodsky

In the history of our country there has never been a time when young people made up such a small percentage of the population. Young people have become a rare species that could be included in the Red Data Book. And this places a special responsibility on those who are preparing the next generation of architects for their professional future. What kind of future are we preparing the young generation of architects for? To what extent do modern curricula and the entire system of professional training meet the challenges and problems of tomorrow? In their experiments, Mikhail Belov and Petr Zavadovsky have found their approach and are using it quite boldly to train the next generation of young architects.

There is another way: to give young people complete freedom of expression. To accept with interest and gratitude any fantasies of the young, no matter how strange and fantastic they may be. The Winter University of Urban Planning took this path for its 25th anniversary time. Young people solved a difficult and tricky question: does Irkutsk have the potential to become an intellectual capital?

Well, PROJECT BAIKAL keeps hoping that with unchanging respect for the classics, architecture will develop and we will see breakthroughs into something completely new.