In addition to two competitions for young architects - "Housing without Borders" and "Electrolyte Boulevard" - one of the events of the "Perspective" festival was the educational program Synthesis, which consisted of lectures and discussions that took place at the Central House of Artists on April 22 and 23. Their leitmotif was the possibilities and problems of combining architecture and modern forms of art: video, animation, game technologies, sound design, media objects in the urban environment. Teachers from MARCH, MARCHI, British Higher School of Design, Strelka Institute, as well as young architects, urbanists, designers, programmers, directors and scientists spoke about the latest multimedia technologies that have become part of architecture.
We are publishing several video versions of lectures and discussions of the Synthesis program.
*** Evolution of architectural elements
and architectural graphics
Igor Yakovlev, WOWhaus. Lecture
Drawing is the universal language of an architect, Yakovlev is convinced, and despite aesthetic and technical changes, the basic set of its symbols is unchanged and even the most ancient examples of architectural graphics are understandable to modern people. Meanwhile, the evolution of tools is reflected in the properties of architectural graphics.
*** Architecture and Media. Interactive Environment Polina Efimova and Andrey Volkov, Institute of Business and Design;
Dmitry Ostroglyadov, Midday studio; Mikhail Spirov, Mediabrand; Discussion
The unconditional opportunities provided by modern graphic design technologies become a problem when it comes to presenting a project to a customer in a force majeure situation: without a computer and devices.
Profession of the future:
to new competencies of architects Anton Kalgaev, Strelka Institute; Dasha Paramonova, Alexander Brodsky bureau, Strelka Institute; Gleb Vitkov and Vitaly Kurennoy, Higher School of Economics; Anna Trapkova, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Pushkin. Discussion
Why can the work of an architect be called the profession of the future and what factors are used to form this concept today? We agreed that the architect of the future needs a synthetic education and should not feel problems both in the city space and in the museum exposition.
Media Architecture in Russia Boris Bernasconi, Bernaskoni Bureau. Lecture
The lecture was based on Bernasconi's book "Hypercube", which tells about his main work - an energy efficient, economical transforming building using video art and media design. The author talks about both general principles and engineering details.
*** New media as tools
transformations in the architectural environment
Ivan Nefedkin and Mikhail Kobatov, Radugadesign; Alexandra Gavrilova and Sergey Titov, STAIN; Bureau Bernaskoni; Sila Sveta. Discussion
The discussion continued with a lecture by Boris Bernasconi. Media makes the architecture hypertextual, its mandatory components are audio and video. The audience explored techno innovations, while Sila representatives talked about looking at architecture as a source of surfaces for audio and video effects.
