This week, in the pages of Russkaya Zhizn, Grigory Revzin once again clarified his position on the failure of post-Soviet architecture. According to the critic, it had every chance of becoming high-quality, in demand and recognizable both in Russia and in the world: we have developed environmental neo-modernism, “glamorous avant-garde”, and neoclassicism, and, finally, “paper architecture”. But in the end, nothing outstanding happened: “Architecture turns out to be a fixation of the experience of historical defeat. if architecture forms the line of the path along which the country goes to a dead end, who wants to repeat such an experience?"
I talked about modern architecture with the Californian architect Eric Owen Moss "Petersburg 3.0". The author of the first project of the Mariinsky-2 said that he did not regret the experience gained in Russia. Calling his project experimental and controversial, the architect nevertheless believes that he organically fit into the surrounding buildings and was very timely. According to Moss, in a city like Petersburg, it is necessary to preserve the historical heritage, but not try to reproduce it: “Petersburg was what it was, it will not go anywhere, but try to repeat it, or even do something that is not would contradict his main idea, wrong. After all, you do not live in the days of creating neoclassical ensembles, you live today, and you can create something no less valuable than it was created centuries ago."
In addition, the story with Apraksin Dvor continued this week. As reported by IA Regnum, the St. Petersburg authorities announced that a new concept for the development of the territory is planned to be prepared within six months. Meanwhile, the activists re-sent to Governor Georgy Poltavchenko a proposal to create a “City of Masters” in Apraksin Dvor.
The arrangement of urban spaces was actively discussed this week in the Moscow press. "Echo of Moscow" talked with the mayor Sergei Sobyanin - the conversation became a kind of summing up the results of the 2.5-year work of the mayor. The mayor said that one of the main results of his team's activities was noticeable improvements in the improvement of the capital. In addition, he opened the veil of secrecy around Zaryadye: plans to create a park remain in effect, as well as a professional competition. Sobyanin also said that work on the improvement of the facades of buildings in the city center and the improvement of the adjacent territories will continue.
It should be noted that Izvestia also wrote about the plans of the Moscow authorities to bring the facades of buildings located on the most visited streets to a single stylistic solution. Opinion.ru published the points of view of experts who approve of the program, but focus on the quality of its implementation: in particular, the need to match color solutions to the historical style of the buildings being restored.
About the improvement of spaces, but in a slightly different vein, was told at the week "Moscow News". The publication spoke with the specialists of the Graduate School of Urbanism, who, together with UrbanUrban, were developing a project for the arrangement of the courtyard in Troparevo-Nikulino. The experts came to the conclusion that residents are not ready to unite to improve the area around, and also voiced the reasons for this. In turn, "Big City" spoke about the final improvement project.
In addition, in Moscow, employees of the Research and Development Institute of the General Plan continue to insist that the reconstruction of Leninsky Prospekt is the only possible solution to the problem of traffic jams, Komsomolskaya Pravda wrote about this. In this regard, it is interesting to think of the Nizhny Novgorod journalist Marina Ignatushko about the Russian approach to transport planning, whose cry from the heart was published by Political Kitchen.
Let's say a few words about the topic of heritage preservation. This week, the Moscow government canceled the decision to demolish 13 historic buildings that form the historical environment, The Village reported. And in the Leningrad region, wrote "Evening Petersburg", the restoration of the unique landscape rock park Mon Repos will soon begin.
In conclusion, we will mention the article published on the pages of Colta.ru. The curator of the Bauhaus in Moscow exhibition, which took place in the capital from October to December 2012, Tatiana Efrussi spoke about how the idea of the exhibition was born and how difficult the implementation turned out to be: from financial issues to organizational issues. And she summed up the exposition, to which, by the way, the media paid very little attention: “I was happy that attentive viewers managed to lure into the network of my own conceptual constructions, where there was a place for half-forgotten“marginal”documents that for years could not find their a place in the "big" history of art of geniuses and masterpieces ".
