Architecture of Russia 2024, May

The Netherlands bureau NEXT Architects is engaged in both architecture and design, combining the development of individual items with the design of buildings, bridges and urban research. At a lecture at the Moscow Architecture Biennale, Bart Reuser presented the results of the latest developments by NEXT architects in the field of rational housing planning. The lecture turned out to be very theoretical, although the architect also showed examples of new works

Stefan Forster is a brilliant find for Bart Goldhorn's lecture program on mass housing. He is one of the few European specialists in five-story buildings that the GDR was built with in 1950-70s. He proposed an ingenious and, most importantly, a profitable way to reconstruct them, as a result of which the German versions of "Khrushchobs" turn into neat, comfortable and modern houses

On Tuesday, within the framework of the Architecture Biennale in the Central House of Artists, an off-site meeting of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation was held, at which a draft resolution was discussed with a proposal to create a working group under the government of the Russian Federation on the problems of the formation and life of the middle class in Russia. At the meeting, they talked about the middle class, casually scolding architects as a class

The exhibition of twelve architects, held in the Ruin wing of the Museum of Architecture on Vozdvizhenka, attracted all the objects that can be attributed to the genre of individual creative expression. In the absence of the curator, everyone spoke in their own spirit, and it is very recognizable: Yuri Avvakumov built the Mausoleum from dominoes, Art-Bla - a luminous tower made of foam rubber tubes, Alexander Brodsky - a self-destruction doll room made of clay on a mesh-reinforcement, Sergey Skuratov put a scroll on the floor

The project of a block in the Yuzhny microdistrict in Domodedovo combines the free layout of an English park, where picturesque boulevards stretch along the banks of small rivers - and, in equal measure, the classic and current shape of round houses. This creates an original space for living - oriented towards nature, but intimate - thanks to the presence of courtyards

The Moscow Biennale was attended by the famous Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto, who delivered a lecture on new approaches to organizing living space in conditions of high population density and on the use of aluminum in mass housing construction

Yesterday evening, the organizers of the Arch of Moscow and the Moscow Architecture Biennale, together with the jury, presented their awards

Yesterday in the suite of the Museum of Architecture opened the exhibition “New Cities. New in Cities "- the last exposition of the Moscow Biennale of Architecture

The famous festival of architecture and interior design "Under the Roof of a House", on its 10th anniversary, changed the roof of the House on Brestskaya to a building on Krymsky Val, where it was hosted by the Tretyakov Gallery. Thus, the festival not only thematically, but also spatially merged with the architectural biennale taking place in the same building. Yesterday, as always, numerous awards were presented to its participants

The lecture by Rok Oman, one of the founders of the architectural bureau OFIS Architects (Slovenia), is the latest story from the lecture program of the Moscow Biennale of Architecture that we are covering. To the main question of the Biennale - "How to live?", The architect answered ambiguously, but brightly and entertainingly, showing the audience the work of his bureau from the category of residential construction. As a formula for a modern residential apartment building, Oman put forward its cheapness, multiplied by the requirements of customers and by a bright, sometimes even

We continue to publish the texts of interviews with architects participating in the exposition of the Russian pavilion of the XI Venice Biennale. Interviews will be posted in the catalog of the Russian pavilion

The Museum of Architecture, as part of the first Moscow Architecture Biennale, is hosting a rare research exhibition dedicated to the little-known work of Ivan Leonidov - the interiors of the pioneers' house, designed in the late 1930s in Tver (Kalinin) by a team of architects and painters under his leadership

Yesterday at the Museum of Architecture, Sergei Tchoban and Irina Shipova presented the first issue of the new architectural magazine ‘SPEECH:’, founded by the architects of the Moscow studio with the same name. The presentation was accompanied by a lecture by the Tokyo Englishmen Atrid Klein and Mark Daitem and the opening of an exhibition of photographs by Yuri Palmin

Sergei Melnichenko's lecture was organized by C: SA within the framework of the "Modern City" program. Her listeners learned that the Moskomarkhitektura since 2003 has been creating a complex database of projects, buildings, urban planning decisions and regulations. And that anyone can turn to her

A logical continuation of the discourse on the theme of ornament in architecture, deployed on the pages of the first issue of the magazine 'SPEECH:', was a lecture by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham from the Tokyo bureau Klein & Dytham Architecture, known for their passion for ornamental "images" on facades, as well as thanks to the festival of young designers with the funny name "Pecha Kucha", coined by Klein and Daytem. The lecture was held on Tuesday in the courtyard of the Museum of Architecture as part of the presentation

A lecture by Alfred Jacobi, Rector of the Dessau School of Architecture, was held as part of the C: CA OVERVIEW program at the Moscow House of Architects. The topic of the lecture was a separate and very personal area in the work of Alfred Jacobi - the construction of synagogues and Jewish centers. The fact is that as a child, the architect went through the tragic experience of the Holocaust, then, living in post-war Germany, he experienced the hard fate of Jews who miraculously survived the Nazi regime

Last Sunday, a bus tour of the buildings of the Sergey Kiselev & Partners workshop was organized by Freedom of Access within the framework of the Architecture Biennale. The excursion was a successful addition to the "Architect of the Year" exposition in the Central House of Artists - its participants had the opportunity to look at buildings well-known in architectural Moscow through the eyes of one of the workshop leaders - Sergei Kiselev

Following the lecture of the dean of the architecture school in Dessau, Alfred Jacobi and the announcement of the results of the competition for the Zeppelin Station in Berlin, the winners of which will go to study at the school of Dessau, a lecture was held at the Central House of Artists, which was read at once by several teachers of the architecture school of Dessau, the successor of the Bauhaus Walter Gropius. The lecture, although it was held in English, probably achieved its goal - it gave the audience a versatile idea of this European school of architecture

It is easy to see that few projects of Russian architects developed at the end of the Moscow Biennale the theme of mass housing set by the curator - there were significantly more beautiful elite quarters. The project demonstrated by the ICube bureau as part of the Quarterly Issue is one of the exceptions. The architects proposed an ingenious option for the reconstruction of a panel microdistrict by arranging the urban space between the houses with a one-story infrastructure

The project of the Olympic reserve school continues the line of schools with cheerful architecture, started by the boarding school in Kozhukhovo. It is a conglomerate of different buildings, a fan of architectural solutions - invariably bright and at the same time responding to the peculiarities of both urban and natural surroundings. It is not easy to reconcile such energetic architecture with the surroundings, but A. Asadov's studio has been working on this quarter for a long time - forming a special - colored - city inside a single fragment of Mytishchi

Exhibition “Milan Architects. The First Three Generations of the 20th Century”tells about the most fruitful period of Italian rationalism in the 1930s and 60s, associated with the work of a galaxy of outstanding masters who lived and worked in Milan. True, the tasks of the current exposition are much wider than the designated geographical framework - the Milanese monuments at this exhibition became an occasion for reflection on the heritage of rationalist architecture in general, including Soviet architecture of the 1960s and 70s. Exhibition p

To the east of the Paveletsky railway station, on the site of the former hardware plant, a site has already been cleared for the construction of a large (112,600 sq. M.) Business center designed by the workshop "Sergey Kiselev and Partners". The strict glass-brick architecture of the complex being built is designed to make its 11-storey volumes less noticeable - and at the same time it forms an expensive office space, semi-enclosed, fenced off from the colorful environment of the industrial zone, which has been transformed into an office space for several years now

High blank fences with massive buildings fenced off from the outside world behind them are the image of most plots in Russian cottage settlements where land is sold without a contract. But this is not the new project of the Panakom bureau, made for the Vaututinki village - the house boldly opens up to the road, the fence is low, and solid glazing was used not only from the side of the courtyard

The name of the project for the village near Moscow “Zhemchuzhina Ilyinka” is not only a metaphor. The settlement is designed like a shell with a "pearl" inside - here the architectural image fully reflects the real estate name of the settlement. When people attracted by advertising come here, they will see, without deception and figurativeness - "a real pearl in a real shell"

We continue to publish interviews with architects participating in the exposition of the Russian pavilion in Venice. The texts of these interviews will be included in the catalog of the Russian pavilion

The next catalog from the Tatlin MONO series has been published. It is dedicated to the architecture of the Atrium bureau and is made with the same love for details and a variety of impressions, which distinguishes the works of Anton Nadtochy and Vera Butko, which make up the content of the catalog

We are publishing an article by Grigory Revzin, curator of the Russian pavilion at the XI Venice Biennale. The text is intended for the catalog of the Russian pavilion and largely explains the curatorial intention

We continue to publish the texts of interviews with architects participating in the exposition of the Russian pavilion at the XI Venice Biennale

Mikhail Belov - participant of the exposition of the Russian pavilion at the XI Biennale of Architecture in Venice

Interview text for the catalog of the Russian pavilion of the XI Venice Biennale

The summer festival "Arch-Stoyanie" ended yesterday in the village of Nikolo-Lenivets. In anticipation of the report on "Arch-Stoyaniya", we publish an essay by Grigory Revzin dedicated to the work of Nikolai Polissky. Recall that the installation by Nikolai Polissky will form part of the exposition of the Russian pavilion at the XI Biennale of Architecture in Venice

Last weekend in the village of Nikola-Lenivets a festival of landscape objects "Archstoyanie-2008" took place. Now he has moved to the water - "the highlight of the program" has become the rafting of rafts invented by Russian and foreign architects and artists. From the Russians, Totan Kuzembaev, Vladimir Plotkin, Alexander Ponomarev participated in the design of the version of Noah's Ark, from the foreigners - the French bureau R & Sie (n) and the Finnish architect Sami Rintal. Meanwhile, on land, they were deciding what to take with them

In the spring in Strogino, the construction of two towers of the "Amber City" by Dmitry Alexandrov was completed, the construction of the other two is in full swing. As it turned out after the completion of the first part of construction, the houses have not only the original internal structure of multi-tiered atriums, but also a very material texture that is unusual for our times

We continue to publish the texts of the interviews, which will be included in the catalog of the Russian pavilion of the XI Biennale of Architecture in Venice. Thomas Lieser is the winner of the competition for the project of the World Museum of Mammoths and Permafrost in Yakutsk. This project will be presented in the exposition of the Russian pavilion

In the Museum of Architecture. A.V. Shchuseva Thomas Lieser presented his project of the World Museum of Mammoth and Permafrost in Yakutsk - one of the exhibits of the Russian pavilion of the XI Venice Biennale

KPF is another participant in the exposition of the Russian pavilion at the XI Biennale of Architecture in Venice

For several years now, Kutuzovsky Prospekt has been increasing its height: Edelweiss, Mirax-Plaza, pits appear to implement the concept of overlapping the Kiev railway. And although it is still unclear how the competition for the formation of the avenue with high-rise construction, organized by the Moskomarkhitektura back in 2006, ended, in reality everything is already being built here. In this series is the project of a hotel and business complex at the intersection of Poklonnaya Street and 1812 Street, made in the Pav

Text for the catalog of the Russian pavilion of the XI Architecture Biennale in Venice

A. Asadov's workshop designs two retail and office complexes, in Tyumen and Lipetsk. Typologically they are similar - they consist of a sprawling shopping center and an office tower, but figuratively they differ: one is sharp, angular, mobile, the second is restrained and calm, viscous, compact. As if two brothers with different characters

By 2010, the licenses should be replaced with approvals that architectural workshops will receive from SROs - self-regulatory organizations of professionals. The amendments to the city code, which entered into force on July 25, launched the process of forming architectural and design SROs, which has been going on in Moscow for a month now, and quite rapidly. The information below is deliberately dry in an attempt to give readers as much concise data on the topic as possible