The architecture of postmodernism, as a western invention, was received with great interest in Japan. Of the huge number of materials, creative means, images and symbols that could be seen in the postmodern works by Western architects, Japanese masters did not take any interest in a particular school...

The traditional ancient Chinese building group is composed of individual buildings laid in accordance with the azimuth, orientation, axis and hierarchical order. The plane features of the group space are characterized by axis extension, multi-path expansion, and layer-by-layer progression; the three-dimensional...

This paper describes the use of architecture as an instrument of propaganda and symbolic representation of the government doctrines, which achieved a particular acuteness during the interwar period in the USSR. The system of governing the art world by the state created in those years retained its influence...

On the basis of analyzing the panoramas of St. Petersburg of Peter's time, this paper gives the town-planning characteristic of the city’s central space — the waters of the Neva against Peter and Paul fortress. The character of the spatiality of Petersburg of Peter's time gives grounds for the stylistic...

The heyday of architect Kurt Frick’s creative activity (East Prussia, currently Kaliningrad Oblast) took place in the interwar years of the 20th century. He contributed greatly in the restoration of the province’s historical cities destroyed in World War I. During 1920s-1930s, the architect’s works were...

The article investigates the problem of searching for the “national style” in the architecture of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. The contradiction between the search for national identity in the architecture of the republic and the international style in the USSR architecture of the “Thaw” era...

The town of Nakhichevan-on-Don was the center of a colony established by the Crimean Armenians in 1779. Between 18th and 19th centuries, their dwellings still showed the architectural traditions of the peninsula. However, Russian laws and the architectural practice that developed under these laws resulted...

This article deals with the evolution of Soviet architecture during the 1960s, marked by the triumph of a modernist architecture, which will also generate forms of regionalization within the USSR, and which will be marked at the same time by an important phenomenon of internationalization, which is particularly...

The fundamental scientific aim is the development of a problem of architectural transformations in the context of traditional culture as a reflection of processes of globalization and regionalization. In the fortification architecture processes of interaction of the introduced universals and traditional...

The Russian historiography as an independent field of history predictably deals with its own studies of the facts. The established attention to methodological issues of the history of the contemporary architecture would be possible only in case that we can merge the search for the answers to the questions...

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem has been actively studied since the middle of the 19th century. At the same time, the opinion was formed that the building passed through four construction stages. This periodization was developed and first proposed by Melchior De Vogüé in 1859. Later, it...

The subject of this paper seems to be important due to the ever-increasing interest in architectural traditions of Russia’s regions. The goal of the study is to reveal features of the architecture of the churches of southern Urals in the 18th and 19th centuries. The key approach I chose for this study...

Armenian architecture has been a subject of serious studies since the beginning of last century. Numerous medieval constructions have been measured, researched and reconstructed. However, there is a major disagreement among the specialists on the existence of a design stage, preceding the actual phase...

The reasons influencing the formation of altars during the 17th century – the first half of the 19th century are figured out on the basis of the system conception. Predominant style schools of that time architecture supported by edited treatises and sketchbooks with engravings and reproductions of European...

The systemic understanding of creation of architectural and environmental facilities with the corporate identity of a particular brand is a relevant issue of the Russian modern architectural education. Further and advanced training programmes have been developed and implemented in two structural subdivisions...

The performed research aims at revealing the functional use and initial location of a part of the objects of architectonic plastic arts, most of which decorated the early medieval Christian structures in the fortress complex of Anacopia, and also at revealing historic and cultural links with the neighboring...

At the beginning of the 20th century, lots of young and promising Russian architects travelled to Italy, interpreting gained experience in projects and buildings (V.F. Shuko, I.A. Fomin), and some of them even had building practices there (A. Schusev). After the October Revolution of 1917 many actors...

There are architects who are destined to play the role of a cultural bridge between countries, Alexander Ignatievich Vladovsky (1876-1950) was one of the kind. The architect made his mark both in pre-revolutionary Russia (in St. Petersburg and Narva) and in the Republic of Estonia, to where he emigrated...

The Russian Revival style occupied a prominent place in the architecture of the XIX century Russia. The style had gone through several stages in its development. In the early 1880s followers of the Russian Revival turned their attention to the heritage of Moscow and Yaroslavl architecture of the XVII...

The article is dedicated to the analysis of various components of architecture and iconographic program of the Jain temple that can reflect rituals of that age; on the example of Ellora complex, this paper tries to understand the concepts embodied in architecture and sculpture, as well as transformation...

In the terms of figured out and studied architecture materials by the author, the development of Belarusian Basilian temples volume-design structure is contemplated. Herewith, the description and images of numerous disappeared temples are introduced to the scientific circulation along with dating and...

The following article is devoted to a fascinating period in Moscow architecture — the years under the reign of Peter the Great. The architectural style of this period is commonly referred to as “Naryshkin” style. Among the monuments of the Naryshkin style, the important place belongs to the churches...

The church in the Inner Castle of the Armenian capital Ani, which until now has not been studied properly, is one of the key monuments of the Armenian architectural tradition revival that began at the turn of the 12th-13th centuries. The purpose of this article is to reveal the features of its plan and...

In the focus of this article there are three large monastic churches, carved out in the rocks of Garalta in Ethiopian region of Tigray: Maryam Dabra Qorqor, Maryam Dabra Tsion and Giyorgis Dabra Maar. Their creation dates back to the period from the second half of the 13th century (the dating of the...

The article considers the historical industrial architecture of the second half of the 19th and the early 20th centuries on the territory of the Volgograd region. Analysis and systematization of the identified information about the construction of industrial facilities (both existing and lost), the use...

The following article concerns Edward Blore’s M.S.Vorontsov’s palace in Aloupka (Crimea). Documents concerning the building were found by us in Victoria and Albert’s Museum and Cambridge University Library (UK). The author of the project, E.Blore, was known in England first of all as an architect capable...

The Cathedral of Transfiguration was built in Tver in 1285-1290. This event gave a start to the revival of stone building in Rus’ in the time of after Mongols’ invasion. That church was replaced with a new temple in the 17th century. It was demolished in 1935. Excavations held in 2012-2014 at the place...

The study examines the architectures during 1920s-1930s in the south of Russia (a vast territory of the North-Caucasus and the Southern Federal Districts), in the context of issues of continuity, traditions and innovations. Both well-known architectural monuments designed by the leading masters of the...

The following article describes evolution of approaches in urban heritage conservation in the second half of the 20th~beginning of the 21st century. Recognition of the complexity and diversity of cultural heritage has changed our understanding of the conservation goals and approaches, especially in the...

Thanks to the complex approach to the shaping of issues of the periodical collection of articles, the architecture was regularly included into the general context of the Old Russian art, which provided to observe the synchronization of processes connecting various forms of the art of Medieval Rus’. For...

Ancestral temple is the most distinctive folk architecture in Southeast Hubei and its plinths are not only the load-bearing construction, but also concentrated expression of its culture, art and science carrier. Based on the field investigation, this paper elaborates on plinth with Yangxin and Tongshan...

Following the rapidly changing reality of architectural practices, which is largely responsible for the organization of the living environment of modern society, a new type of architectural education is developed throughout the world. It is distinguished by the fundamental nature of project research,...

This paper analyzes the problems existing in the civil engineering construction technology course. Based on the "Competition of Construction Technology Application Skills", the teaching reform is carried out from the aspects of the division of the curriculum modules, the teaching methods, the practical...

The place narrative theory has significant value in improving the artistic quality of tourism landscape design. Using the methods of phenomenology and landscape narratology, the theoretical model of the narrative tourism landscape design is analyzed and constructed, and the application research of Wuxi...

The Dai culture has a long history. The bamboo building is the original form of the Dai stilt style architecture. It has the original shape, simple structure and convenient construction. Conducting on-the-spot investigations on the Xishuangbanna Dai villages, exploring the remains of the traditional...

Rwanda has a unique climate, traditional culture and regional characteristic. This paper analyses the traditional architectural function layout, structure, form, construction materials of Rwanda, and its adaptable climate characteristics, and summarizes the traditional construction and local material...

This paper tells the changes of vernacular architecture to modern architecture and how it can improve in some traditional design to show a nation culture beauty. This will also help to keep the memories of old architecture from one generation to another. (Modernizing traditional architecture) currently...

This paper not only collates the data of the Japanese literature memorial halls but also discusses the relationship between the urban construction and Miyazawa Kenji Museum located in Hanamaki. With regard to how the Kenji City Development Division affiliated to the municipal government coordinates with...

The interactive, virtual and innovative new media technology in moral education exhibition design in elementary schools is analyzed in depth with new media technology as the background and new media application as the entry point in this paper, so as to enhance the interaction between experiencer and...

With the advent of folk tourism fever, Ganbao Tibetan Village rebuilt after the disaster is gradually known for her unique historical and humanistic value. Based on the analysis of the relationship between unique multi-ethnic coexistence and the rebuilding of residential buildings in Ganbao Tibetan Village,...

The education system in architecture will undergo serious changes in the near future. The process of restructuring the whole body of architecture will take more than one century, and in this process, the profession itself will face the restructuring of habits acquired by architecture. These processes...

The book written by Joseph Strzygowski “Architecture of the Armenians and Europe”, published in Vienna in 1918, was an example of an entirely new approach to the monuments of Armenian medieval architecture. The central principle of Strzygowski’s study is the method of a comparative analysis, which reveals...

The dialogue between architecture and the society has always been of mutual importance. Today, in the age of globalization, and in the heyday of mass culture, this dialogue has its own peculiarities. Architecture as a kind of creative activity and architectural objects as a result of this activity has...

Nowadays, as never before, the architectural education demands deep knowledge of regional culture, its heritage as spiritual and material identity of the regions of country. The state of the system of the architectural education is defined both with objective characteristics — in the second half of the...

The general direction of the study of the psychoacoustic background of the architectural space is at the junction of several areas of scientific knowledge: the theory of architecture, general psychology, and psychophysiology. The connections between the human psyche and his subject-spatial environment...

The article is devoted to the history of Russian gardens in the 17th and 18th centuries, in which various influences of Italian garden culture can be found. The author emphasizes links with the Italian culture through literature and mythology, as well as the influence of the direct impressions of the...

The study is based on the discovered archival and printed sources and the author’s field researches, which enable to more reasonably reconstruct the image structure of the lost nobility and merchants estates in the field of the reconstruction of their architectural and spatial organization in the border...

In today's society, along with the rapid development of economy and urbanization, the arrival of the new industrialization era and the era of big data, many traditional cultures have been affected, including intangible heritage and cultural sites. This study analyzes the development history and architectural...

Through the exploration of the methods and models of developing campus community culture and community cultural education resources, this paper makes theoretical and practical attempts in developing the innovation and evaluation mechanism of developing community culture and community culture education...

As a necessary part of the rural revitalization reform, rural tourism needs to meet the diverse needs of people's rural tourism through effective planning methods. This has become an important issue to be considered in the planning and design of folk areas. The rural planning of Jingxin Town of Hunchun...

China is an economic and agricultural power. The accumulation of production, society and families over thousands of years makes different rural areas have their own unique culture. Rural planning has become an inevitable product in the context of social progress and economic growth. However, a template...

With the acceleration of the process of urban construction and development, the contradiction between man and nature has intensified, the ecological balance has been broken, and the ecological chain has been interrupted. In recent years, in order to improve the living environment, people have rationally...

As the carrier of living cultural heritage, traditional villages embody the regional cultural landscape formed by the comprehensive effects of natural resources, human history and the coexistence of human and environment. Based on the regional features of Changbai Mountains, this paper analyses the cultural...

With the implementation of the new urbanization and rural revitalization strategy under socialism with Chinese characteristics, exploring cultural tourism based on the unique historical and cultural resources of traditional ancient towns has become the protagonist of rural tourism development, the characteristics...

Ecological problems of civilization have not lost their relevance since the twentieth century. Methods of their solution are limited to a one-sided view of the situation, which does not allow changing it radically. Consideration of the system of knowledge in the context of the transformation and the...

The paper presents the results of the PhD research of author “The Landscape: comparison between Italy and Russia. The general values for legislative and planning instrumentation”, supported by the Erasmus Mundus Action 2 Programme of the European Union. The paper is dedicated to the landscape planning...

The relevance of the topic lies in the fact that due to the economic, environmental and aesthetic benefits, mass low-rise construction in all regions of Russia is one of the priorities of state policy. National wealth, including landscapes and waters, should be preserved and used. It is necessary to...

All of the branches of the Russian industry, including the most progressive in the XIX century — textile industry, were born in the leading industrial center Saint-Petersburg. Nevskaia manufacture occupies a prominent place among the textile enterprises with its splendid examples of the “brick style”...

The issues related to the identity of small historical towns have become particularly relevant in Russia over the past decade. In accordance with the Quebec Declaration, the identity pertains to the relations between population and a town or a village, appearing when the inhabitants perceive the settlement...

The article is dedicated to the priceless pool of monuments of history and culture that exists in rural areas. The article considers both settlements as whole and separate buildings: churches, rural manors, industrial buildings, and memorials. The author highlights the necessity to have a list of sites...

Small cities of Russia today before our eyes lose their architectural appearance, its provincial appeal, disturbed the harmony of landscape and the historical spatial organization. This is a big problem for their further development. In the Kaluga region are beautiful architectural monuments and ensembles,...

Article focused on postwar Sevastopol center architecture and planning concepts, one of the best preserved and complete in the 1940-50s practice. New attribution and detailed drawings was discover in City archive recently and never were analyzed. It was a major work by many principal Soviet architects...

The great ruins are a kind of non-renewable precious resources. The southern Lifang district in the Luoyang City Site in Sui and Tang Dynasties is the product of the development of ancient Chinese capital to a certain historical stage. As many important relics and rich cultural history have been excavated...

Based on sorting out the current problems of the protection of traditional villages and combining with the re-understanding of the concept of cultural gene, starting from the understanding of the two characteristics of material culture gene and non-material culture gene, this paper analyses the expression...

Local architectural heritage is an important part of cultural heritage and an indispensable carrier of regional culture. It contains abundant historical information and cultural connotations. At present, the protection of local architectural heritage is still limited to traditional technology intervention...

Monuments of wooden architecture constitute a significant and valuable part of the architectural heritage of Russia. Work on their preservation has its own specifics, due to the material and its properties. The article deals with the methods of restoration of historical wooden buildings. The main trends...

The article deals with the main factors that contributed to the socio-economic transformation in the Eastern territories of Russia in the twentieth and early 21st century. It also reaches to determine the origins of ideas for the relocation of the country's industrial centers to the hinterland along...

The article describes architectural bionics that was formed in the 1960s in the USSR as an independent direction in the theory and practice of architecture. It has become an organic synthesis of the classical theory of architectural composition and modern technical bionics located at the interface of...

The following article describes the artistic resources of media architecture, allowing for visual communication and informational impact on a person. The author studies the specifics of the artistic means of media architecture using the method of historical analogy. Analysis of a large number of media...

The article is devoted to an actual problem of identifying features of formation of atypical spaces in the context of architectural heterotopy. The purpose of the article is to present the emerging architecture of the development of spatial concepts, identifying their typological signs of emergence and...

Innovative architectural forms arise and develop at the intersection of science and art, architecture and engineering. Architecture and design have become the areas of practical application of mathematical concepts of spatial fragmentation. The approaches used in the classical geometry and “new” non-Euclidean...

In recent years, a large number of rural schools have been idle due to some reasons such as “school mergence”. After China stepped into the aging society in 1999, the aging population surged, and it has become a huge challenge for nowadays society. Compared with cities, the problem of supporting old...

This paper starts from the study on the representation of two-dimensional pixels in three-dimensional space, and focuses on studying the internal space and combination form of commercial complex, using pixelated modular space to create infinite space in finite space. "Pixelate" is mostly applied to two-dimensional...

In recent years, earthquake disasters have occurred frequently. People not only lose their property, and their houses are also seriously damaged. Some natural disasters are foreseeable and can be prevented in advance, while earthquakes are basically unpredictable and have high breaking strength, so the...

Based on the dual background of leisure agriculture and rural landscape renewal, based on the current settlements and landscape recession faced by rural development, combined with the relevant theories of leisure agriculture planning, this paper considered the means and mode of rural landscape renewal....

With the change of contemporary people's aesthetic taste, advocating the green and natural, fresh and healthy has become a trend of interior design. Bamboo elements are also widely used in modern interior design. This paper introduces the practical application of bamboo elements and materials and the...

The article considers the question of expression of creative innovation in traditional, mainly medieval, Russian architecture. Various degrees of liberties taken in relation to reproduction of architectural models are identified. The attention is drawn to the rare cases of emergence of new models surpassing...

The article provides methodological recommendations for carrying out historical - genetic analysis of urban settlement structures, based on the study of their evolution, in order to obtain fundamental knowledge of the regularities in the origin and development of various types of settlements. This knowledge...

The relevance of the topic of the article is predetermined by the beginning of the professional development of the project of territorial development of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration for the period up to the 2030s. The article briefly describes the stages of the historical formation of the agglomeration,...

The article discusses the change in scientific approaches to the study of architecture and urban planning of the Soviet era, characteristic of the research of the last three decades. The discussion at the round table in 1991 where the methodological issues of the study of Soviet architecture have been...

The article is devoted to the book J. Stübben “Der Städtebau” (“Town planning”) and its influence on the works of Russian Specialists in Cities improvement of the early 20th century. This article describes the value of the book for the development of European town planning of the late 19th – early 20th...

In the 1950s, European architects realized that the monotony and rigorism of the projects, which had been implemented by the pioneers of modernism, had extremely devastating impact on the urban landscape. The lack of unique artistic solutions and diversity in urban topography resulted in citizens’ losing...

The article introduces the notion of “potential spatial framework (PSF) of a historic settlement”, which is formed as an integral one on the basis of natural-ecological, historical-cultural and public-business spatial frameworks of the city. Depending on a dominant dictating a certain type of potential...

Today’s urban environment is full of and in many cases overburdened with manifestations of modern civilization with its velocities and uncontrolled requirements. Anyhow, one continues to spend much of the time in the city, looking not only for dwelling, food and job, but also for cultural and spiritual...

Although the notion of parametric modelling could date back to the hanging chain model of Gaudi, the utilization of parametric model in architectural design has only become a phenomenon in recent years. Both practitioners and researchers have demonstrated the great potential of these design models when...

The article analyzes the patterns of formation of residential planning units (microdistrict, neighborhood, community) based on the comparative retrospective analysis of their concepts formation. The article is based on the author's own on-site survey of the existing and new residential planning units,...

From the middle of the 20th century, a firm position has been formed about the value of each stage of historical development of populated areas and preservation of their uniqueness. Historical science, as a rule, investigates architectural objects, established urban ensembles or historical cities. Applied...

As Macau once was a Portuguese colony, there are the oldest, largest, best preserved and most centralized buildings with eastern and western styles coexisting in the historic urban area of Macau. The process of urban renewal has caused damages of different degrees to historical architectural heritage....

The article discusses the origin of the concept of spatialization (from Latin spatium — space) and the nature of its use in architectural science. The concept is presented as the name of the action aimed to create a model of an economically effective social space. The action initiated by the initiative...

In recent years, the tourism-oriented towns that have gradually emerged have not only enriched the content of characteristic towns, but also become a key project of tourism development. Taking the specific project that the author touched during the internship as an example, through systematic analysis...

Impelled by national policies, the rural tourism craze is promoted; more and more people love rural tourism whether on weekends or holidays, and they are deeply attracted by it. The rural tourism is developed across the country in diverse types and with advisable measures to local conditions, providing...

The article is devoted to the role of religious buildings of different faith groups in the formation of the town spatial system of the Southern Russia in the XIX century. The authors identified features of the temples arrangement system in Taganrog, Novocherkassk, Rostov and Nakhichevan-on-Don. The importance...

In the XVI-XVII centuries, the territory of modern Belarus in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania had a widespread geometrical organization of the urban structures. In the base of regular formation there was a use of urban planning principles of Western Gothic of the XIII century. In the following centuries...

The article is devoted to the study of the space-time development of settlement system in the European part of Russia in the basins of the main rivers. The model developed by the authors shows the role of the river network in the formation of the historical structure of the settlement system. The special...

The Empire is the field for a single civilization, distributed from its center. In the spatial dimension, the “imperial” concept brings architecture as its visual image to the forefront. Hence, the strict, enforced by the central government unification policy in architectural and urban-planning activity,...