The sixtiers are a significant phenomenon in the Soviet culture in general and in architecture inparticular. Like in the 1920s, creative associations were formed around innovative ideas and personalities. As T. Umnova said, if it were not for the sixtiers, the XX century would have lost half of its charm.
Now it is time to recognize the value of the contribution made by the sixtiers to urban planningand architecture, to theory and practice. Modernism has become of interest in times of crisis and aspiration for careful attitude towards resources.
The modernist development of Irkutsk and related issues of its toponymy are considered. The impact of the Irkutsk architectural school of the 1960s, its founders V. Pavlov, V. Voronezhsky and V. Bukh in the development of urban planning practice is emphasized. The necessity to introduce the names of the "sixtiers"into the toponymy of Irkutsk is substantiated. It is also necessary to continue the implementation of their projects, which will allow solving urgent tasks related to the improvement of the boulevards – the main pedestrian axes, forming human flows on them, and thereby ensuring...
Our journal has been studying the Irkutsk (Pavlov) school and architecture of the great generation of the sixties for more than 15 years. In the PORTRAIT OF THE ARCHITECT section of the first issue, we spoke about the urban planner Vyacheslav Voronezhsky. Such journal issues as PB26 Pavlov, PB 39–40 Sixtiers, PB 43 Irkutskgrazhdanproject, as well as a series of articles of PB 59 Curtain XX and a number of other issues are devoted to the period of formation and the highest rise of the Irkutsk school. PB continues to publish materials on the history of the Irkutsk school, paying tribute of...
Architecture of Irkutsk in 1960-1980s is considered in the context of the national and foreign practices. The article tells about the establishment of the architecture speciality at Irkutsk Polytechnic Institute (1973). The personality of architect V. A. Pavlov is featured as a personality of the Teacher; its methods of professional communication with students and apprentices are also presented.
Irkutsk, which rapidly developed in the Soviet period, has preserved its unique architectural outlook. In the 1970-80s, historical buildings were situated alongside forward-looking projects that were ahead of their time. One of the authors of such projects was Vladimir Bukh, who was the chief architect of the city from 1977 to 1989. His interviews with colleagues and contemporaries, his thoughts expressed in periodicals make it possible to depict his human and professional qualities.
The article is devoted to architects of the sixties who contributed to the development of architecture in Irkutsk and who left it for various reasons. Studying the projects designed by B. M. Aptekman, V. N. Banit, V. S. Voronezhsky, L. G. Krupskaya, V. A. Pavlov, E. B. Pkhor, L. M. Rezvyakova, V. A. Chemeris before and after their moving to other cities, the author makes conclusions about the impact of Irkutsk school on the formation of the architects’ creative manner.
Irkutskgrazhdanproject was founded in the middle of the 1960s, a unique and wonderful time. Clear and heavy forms of Neo-Brutalism matched harmoniously the context of the Siberian city of Irkutsk. Young architects of the western avant-garde were aligned with the emerging Irkutsk school, which was unexpected, because both parties could hardly know about each other. But it is obvious that the first architects from Irkutskgrazhdanproject ranged among such great architects as the Smithsons, Louis Kahn and Kenzo Tange.
Having come from the capitals to Irkutsk in the late 50s – early 60s, those foplings, idealists, maximalists and daydreamers started a new stage full of brave ideas and incredible realizations.
There is a popular belief that the architecture of the 1960s is not architecture at all. Forced to be ascetic, this architecture is often unphotogenic. Nowadays it suffers from advertisements, signs and alterations; sometimes it is utterly distorted being wrapped in shining foil of modern materials to satisfy a new owner.
The editorial staff’s task was to return authors to the...
Bukh, the maximalist, as some of his friends called him.
Then a more appropriate word was found – perfectionist.
He aimed at perfection in everything he did. Be it town planning, municipal administration, work for a non-governmental organization Union of Architects of Russia, or creating a journal.
The headwater area has always been and remains the best...
This article is a study of neighbourhood construction during the 1960's – 1980's. These neighbourhoods are presented as self-dependent structures; this being valuable not only in terms of their complex conceptual content but also socially and culturally. The planning decisions aesthetically reveal the cultural potential of each district. This is an illustration of some qualitative characteristics of the Irkutsk micro-district spaces.
List of Designed and Built Projects by Vladimir Pavlov in Irkutsk