The Moscow Biennale is the sixth this year; Venetian, which will begin in a week - the sixteenth; Arch Moscow is twenty-third. A solid age, teenage problems behind, priorities are set, the blue suit fits well, you can get a promising position somewhere in the ministry … The facial features have been defined, they have acquired a young, confident solidity, and the handwriting has settled down.
The main exposition of the year is definitely the renovation at the stand of the Moscow Committee for Architecture and Construction at the entrance to the third floor. Last year, the renovation was only announced, and the stand was occupied with new metropolitan standards under development, which was not so interesting and a little with anguish: the standards have not yet been adopted, and a major restructuring is announced, and residents of the districts have already come to the announcement, alone as usual to ask to be taken into the program, others vice versa. Noisy, strange. Now it is beautiful and solid: the stand is dedicated to the projects of five pilot sites, on it are photographs of twenty architects taken during the presentation of projects in the House on Brestskaya, raster and slightly larger than human growth are emphasized, which, like a modern urban, but realistic sculpture like Vysotsky Petrovsky gate, provides some bronze and at the same time the effect of the presence of these people at the exhibition, among visitors interested in projects. Every five days figuratively stands over his project and “defends” it, presenting at the same time his participation. This has not yet been achieved: before, the stars of the Moscow architectural market appeared on the first day, sometimes not all - on the day of the award, as a rule, those who or whom; now they will be in this heart of the exhibition, presenting pilot projects of Moscow renovation sites, all five days. By the way, the jury has not yet chosen the winners of the competition, they promised it sometime in May, which makes the stand even more beautiful, effective, deeply thought-out presentation of the culmination of the architectural part of the renovation project. Without exaggeration, this is the best stand of the exhibition, budget, concept, design, everything is smart and clear, at the highest level, you can hardly make it more professional.
Further, the topic diverges in circles - yes, it is from here, and not from the first floor. The archive catalog is placed in a circle along the walls of the MKA hall, one project from the bureau. But attention - in the corner behind the partition on the stairs at the entrance to the second floor, where you can first think, there are only words on the red wall, behind the wall there is a touch screen that controls three projectors, here each bureau presented more projects, although someone more, some are smaller, but you can click on the screen.
On the second floor, in the hall, where the exhibition of the architect of the year was often held, now is the stand of Tatarstan, the guest of honor. It represents public spaces that have been designed in the republic in dozens in recent years, and looks like a round amphitheater with red steps, a kind of, you know, Zilantov buleuterium.
But back to the third floor. From pilot renovation projects, the topic of re-, or Perestroika-2, as its curator Bart Goldhorn called it, comparing it with the 2010 exhibition, diverges in circles with a more or less free interpretation, correlating with the recent issue of Project Russia magazine, also dedicated to the prefix re- … In the second large hall, around the chairs of the Moskomarkhitektura lecture hall, like last year, there are installations by young, although everything is relative, architects of the Redevelopment project. Curator Ilya Mukosey says that adding to the title the wording "An architect in a built city" he tried to give the plots more freedom, and it turned out quite nicely: Blank architects
presented the principles and advantages of redevelopment in the form of bottles, cut, split, glued and others. "People's Architect" shows Moscow parks using 3D glasses. Bureau iq performs with a monitor, an artificial tree and ottomans, which are constantly busy with weary visitors. IND architects show their project for the renovation of a water tower in the city of Shcherbinka in the form of a torn foam pipe with heartfelt inscriptions and peculiar acoustics inside, everyone is invited to enter the white cylinder. At another wall, Frontarchitecture shows glasses with slides, and GlekelPRTNRS shines a projector on the letters "was" on the ceiling, landing multi-colored paper airplanes (!) On the letters "became" on the ground, and not forgetting to demonstrate their projects here on the screen.
Sergey Trukhanov will talk about his vision of the redevelopment topic today in the ICA lecture hall at 17:00, this is also part of the "re" program. At the same time, Narine Tyutcheva and Arkhnadzor, occupying hall 23 of the non-commercial part, combined the lecture program with a separate hall with an exhibition, calling all together “Unbearable Renovation”. The bottom line is that - black-and-white photographs in a tulle cube, similar, let's say, a shelter from mosquitoes and flies - show 218 buildings without a conservation status that fell into the renovation program, but “as a result of the efforts of the working group that worked in the summer - in the fall of 2017, and by order of the mayor of Moscow will be physically saved. " The hall will host a workshop of the PE-school, Tyutcheva's project, aimed at studying the practice of reconstruction with the preservation of monuments and environmental objects.
Going further along the square traditionally assigned to the substantive part of the exhibition, one cannot miss the NER hall, fenced off a little to the right. It is very beautiful and presents an exhibition and publishing project dedicated to the famous futuristic concept. Curators - Alexandra Gutnova and Masha Panteleeva.
Next came the exhibition of “N cities” of the Project Baltia magazine by Vladimir Frolov and the speech: Living in nature magazine project by Anna Martovitskaya, dedicated to the architecture and landscape of modern Finland - an object made of crossed beams that occupied an entire small hall. Nearby, as always, are sold speech: magazines and books from DOM publishers, including a guide to Berlin written by Anna Martovitskaya (its presentation on Friday).
The stands of the architectural bureaus were distributed along the hall-corridor No. 18, here of interest is the giant stand of the Kiev company "Archimatika", presenting their program of PRO-apartments, with a large layout of the residential complex "Slavutich", in cooperation with pragmatika.media; among the schemes and questions - what did the author smoke? Two other notable stands: Basire Design Group from Kazakhstan, they fenced their own small dead end in a large corridor and placed there a portrait of David Bowie, somewhere in the spirit of commemorative plaques on the walls of the House on the Embankment. Not all architectural firms fit into corridor 18 - in the Redevelopment hall, Yuliy Borisov and UNK project show a fragment of the fiber-reinforced concrete relief of the Luzhniki pool, Wowhaus, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in a public talk format on the opening day of the exhibition, presents the Monorail project ", Rethinking the well-known road of Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov.
Mosinzhproekt with the models of Zaryadye and the Bolshoi Sports Arena took a large corner in the MKA hall; its stand is rather out of the general stylistics. Between it and the Monorail, there are a number of stands of development companies, whose design belongs to co-curator Ilya Mukosey, his idea - the stands resemble, not in all details, but quite thoroughly, the formwork of building concrete, therefore, in addition to the glamorous "development" lightboxes, an element of frivolity appears here, or on the contrary, the pragmatic seriousness of the construction process. Curiously, the designer Mukosey managed to combine in one project the pathos of PR of development companies and the romance of a construction site.
For romance, however, the first, entrance floor, the hall for the wardrobe, is largely responsible. From here, let me remind you, the Arch catalog was removed - the incoming ones are greeted by the installation of Sergei Tchoban and Andrey Perlich "Perestroika", which interprets the theme set by Bart Goldhorn. A quadrifolium-tetrapylon made of corrugated board, in tune with the lamps of the Central House of Artists' foyer above it (Yegor Larichev was the first to notice this consonance) works as a pavilion, in which interviews and works of "six masters of the 1960s - 1980s" are shown: Igor Vasilevsky, Yuri Gnedovsky, Vladilen Krasilnikov, Vladimir Kubasov,Felix Novikov, Sergei Shmakov.
Nearby, to the right of the entrance, is another romantic project from the MARSH school; Ilya Mukosey also participated in its creation. True to the principle of seeing everything a little inside out, deflecting reality for the sake of the integrity of architectural thought, the MARCH school shows educational models of the urban planning course - plaster models of empty space in different cities, "including courtyards, arches …". It turns out the negative of the city, a kind of interlinear space, and one can observe how Chicago differs from Florence or find among the cities the legendary Matera, with whom one says goodbye.
The traditionally beautiful exhibition of "Architectural Graphics", all in the same hall, seems to have surpassed itself this year: the works are different and interesting, there is no single stream. In addition, it smells nice there of fresh paint and now you can vote at the exhibition - for 1-2-3 your favorite works, explains curator Yekaterina Shalina. Shown as part of the work, selected by the award jury, which has not yet voted entirely, plus the curator's choice, which is probably why the exposition is so good. In addition to the jury award, there will now be two "people's" ones: based on the results of Internet voting and voting at the exhibition.
And yes. And there was an event at Arch Moscow. If in previous years the opening was attended by Deputy Mayor Marat Khusnullin, now Mayor Sergei Sobyanin himself has come. I walked through the exhibition, looked into the hall of architectural graphics. He shook hands with Sergei Skuratov. “And the cameras at this moment are like a click-click-click”, - says the architect.
