This weekend, Muscovites will have, perhaps, the last opportunity to view the architectural monuments in the area of Old Square, Varvarka Street, Nikitnikov Street and Ipatievsky Lane in the company of guides: soon a part of this quarter, adjacent to the buildings of the presidential administration, will be taken under the protection of the FSO. Access here will actually be closed. On October 30, the activists of "Arkhnadzor" invite everyone to excursions, the central object of which will be the pearl of Kitai-Gorod during the time of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich - the Trinity Church in Nikitniki.
The Society for the Study of the Russian Estate is preparing two interesting events at once: on October 31, a traditional meeting will take place, at which MN Sokolov, Doctor of Art History, will deliver a report on "The Holy Mountains" of Northern Italy - from the sacred to the romantic landscape ", as well as the presentation of the book by A. … Chizhkov "Tula estates". And from 3 to 6 November, the Company organizes a bus trip to the monuments of the Yaroslavl Region. For three days, excursionists will be able to visit Yaroslavl and Tutaev, see little-known noble estates of the surrounding area, in particular, the temple in which Admiral F. F. Ushakov and much more.
With the motto "For the November holidays in Kartonsk!" the organizers of the festival “Kartonsk. Scientific city ". This time the art performance will take place in Ulyanovsk, which was declared the cultural capital of the CIS in 2011. The cardboard city will be built by the participants of the IV International Competition for Architecture and Design of Cardboardia - it will grow right on the central square of Ulyanovsk. A variety of activities await guests, from theatrical performances to seminars and hobby clubs.
Two scientific conferences will take place in St. Petersburg at the beginning of next week. Participants of the meeting "City guide: history and modernity" will discuss how the image of the city was formed in different historical periods in foreign and domestic guidebooks. And at the conference "Art and Science in the Modern World" "physicists and lyricists" will converge: scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences and members of the Russian Academy of Arts will look for points of contact between the two fields of knowledge.
The coming week is also rich in events taking place abroad. The lecture "The Last Style of the Empire", dedicated to Soviet modernism, will be delivered in New York by the architect and curator Vladimir Belogolovsky. Kenneth Frampton, renowned researcher and author of 20th century architecture, will give an opening speech. The world's largest architectural forum World Architecture Festival 2011 will be held in Barcelona from November 2 to 4: the works of dozens of well-known bureaus will be presented to a wide audience, as well as the results of the international architectural competition WAF Awards will be announced. In addition, this year the organizers decided to experiment and jointly with the architectural festival to hold the International Interior Design Festival Inside. Finally, BATIMAT 2011, the largest trade fair for the construction industry, opens in Paris on 7 November.
M. Ch.
