The competition "Golden Section", which is considered the main architectural award in Moscow, was established more than 20 years ago. The competition expanded to a festival format in 2013. Since then, not only the outstanding works of the capital's architects have been demonstrated here (this season, about 150 projects are participating in the show), but also topics that are relevant and even painful for the professional community are discussed.
This year's theme is “Space for Quality”. Architects and urban planners will discuss pressing issues and try to define the concept of "quality" in relation to the arrangement of the urban environment.
The festival is organized by the Union of Moscow Architects. Curator - Nikita Asadov.
Below is the program of the festival events. Some of them can only be visited by prior registration. You can find out more about the festival and follow the changes in the program on the website.
April 13, Thursday
18.00 Solemn opening ceremony of the "Golden Section" festival
Large Foyer of the Central House of Artists
As part of the ceremony, the presentation of special projects and the opening of the exhibition of works of the review competition for the Golden Section Prize will take place.
19.00 Round table: "The quality of making urban planning decisions"
Large Foyer of the Central House of Artists
Participants: Marat Khusnullin, Sergey Kuznetsov, Yuliana Knyazhevskaya, Sergey Skuratov, Yuri Grigoryan, Alexey Muratov
Moderator: N. I. Shumakov
April 14, Friday
18.00 Round table: "Is high-quality architecture possible without open competitions and without the architect's copyright at all stages of creating an architectural object?"
White living room CDA
Typical design, standardization and quality - evil or good? Typical or individual?
Moderators: V. N. Logvinov, A. V. Bokov, S. V. Gnedovsky
19.00 Lecture by Andrey Chernikhov "The Line of Thought" within the framework of the program of the architectural drawing competition "Archigraphics". Registration >>>
Great Hall of the Central House of Artists
April 15 - 16, Saturday - Sunday
10.00 - 20.00 Educational program: "Media tools: video and projection technologies in architecture."
Large Foyer, Lobby
The educational program includes an exhibition, lectures, discussions and master classes. Registration >>>
Curator: Andrey Kiselev
April 17, Monday
18.00 Round table: "Fundamental foundations for the development of urban planning activities in the Russian Federation"
White living room CDA
Moderators: E. A. Gurvich, A. V. Bazhenov
April 18, Tuesday
12.00 Inauguration of the memorial plaque dedicated to the outstanding civil engineer of the 20th century Emmanuel Handel (1903-1992). Address: st. 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya, 36
18.00 Round table "Changing the system of urban settlement on the basis of the new urban planning policy of the Russian Federation"
White living room CDA
Moderator: I. Zalivukhin
April 19 - 20, Wednesday - Thursday
Research seminar "Five-storey buildings: quality of life and environment". Registration >>>
Large foyer
Experimental fixation of the quality of life in the architectural environment of demolished five-story buildings through micro-research.
April 19
11.00 - 13.00 Kick-off meeting at CDA (Blue living room)
13.00 - 17.30 Work on the territory
18.30 - 20.00. Gathering at the CDA and analysis of the results (Blue living room)
20 April
15.00 - 16.00 Gathering at the CDA. Preparation of presentations
16.30 - 18.00 Round table with research participants and invited experts.
April 20, Thursday
19.00 Summing up the results of the competition for the Golden Section Prize and the solemn ceremony of awarding the winners
Large Foyer of the Central House of Artists
April 26, Wednesday
15.00 - 18.30 Conference on the topic: "Space for quality"
Big hall
