I love it more consciously,
I love it more dearly -
This bright generation
Hardened severely…
Yuri Levitansky
These words said by a sixtier poet were addressed to another generation, that was born in the time of the Great Russian revolutions, as the new history textbooks begin to call it. The 20s and the 60s also correlate in architecture: the time of hope, romance and avant-garde. Brave ideas, internationalism and sociality, and attempt at freedom.
New genres and subcultures appeared: tourists and hiking (214), bard...
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...
Important ties between institutional and ordinary schools education system architectural criticism and popular books as necessary for providing humanistic values and creative potential in contemporary architecture
Infant architectural education was built at last century on the fantasy and ornamental patterns. These methods produced attractive results, but were at the same time inducing some kind of modernistic art values in scholar training and infantile thinking. Nowadays afterpostmodern art and architecture are more distanced from playfulness and striving for critical and genetic-historical approach and thus are able to widen the scope of infantile imagination toward critical attitudes.
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...
The article is focused on the architecture of Irkutsk as an object of the debates held in the middle of the 1980s.
The article presents the Irkutsk architecture of the 1960s as a special layer of material and spiritual culture of the modern city.
The article is devoted to the phenomenon of the Soviet architecture of the late 1950s – 60s. The name of the article is “Their name is halfway”. It expresses the sense of all the processes occurring both in society and architecture during the Khrushchev Thaw. Developing the socalled Stalin’s Empire in the 1930-1950s, the masters of architecture had travelled only half the way. If the power had not abruptly stopped this movement, we would probably have a unique modern architecture dissimilar to the “international style”. The collapse of the Soviet Union stopped the evolution of...
More than half of our built environment in Germany is created in the period after 1945, including the technical infrastructures. For the built heritage of the postwar era - the majority is in use - there is important need for renovation and modernization. To transfer the architecture and urban ensembles of this time into the present and make them fit for a sustainable future, is a task of considerable scope and with complex requirements. 60 years after the war destruction of the Second World War and after the origin of the so-called Second Modernism, it is time to evaluate beyond...
La Défense, the main business cluster of the Paris metropolitan area, had been planned and developed under the impulse of the 1950 onwards. Situated on the historic axis in the west of the city of Paris on the territory of the suburban French State from municipalities of Puteaux and Courbevoie, the basic urban planning principles of this district are strongly influenced by the concepts of the international modern urbanism of this period. The text describes the origin and the development of the site from the project in the 1950s to the construction in the 1960s until the first economic...
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.