Authors

Reshetnikov Aisen Ya., Gudkov Alexey A.
Influence of Russian wooden architecture on residential and household buildings of the Sakha people in the 18th–19th century

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №2 (90) June, 2025

The article examines the influence of Russian wooden architecture on residential and household buildings of the Sakha people. The key role of establishment of a postal service between Irkutsk and Yakutsk is considered, and the resettlement of Russians and Sakha people is retraced. The reasons for using log buildings by the Yakuts are identified, and the structural features of the Russian log hut and balagan (light wooden shed) are studied. The Ponomarev Tower is compared with the Yakut fortress, and the traditional barn of the Sakha people is reviewed. The structure used for drying sheaves is considered, and the first experiences of using zavalina (log piles) and seni (kind of anteroom) as a balagan are analyzed. The peculiarities of the transformation of residential buildings in Sakha are determined: the use of log notching in the frame-pillar system of the balagan; combination of cribwork with balagan; construction of a three-chamber log house with Russian hut plan. The study identified two main periods of The influence of Russian wooden architecture on the traditional architecture of Sakha is found to have had two main periods.

Gudkov Alexey A., Morozova Olga V.
SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THE METHODOLOGY OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH INTO OBJECTS OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №1 (33) March, 2011

The level that humanitarian knowledge has reached opens up new prospects for the use of traditional research methodologies in architectural studies, including a sociological approach to studying objects of architectural history.

Today, the principal areas of methodological interaction between architectural studies and sociology exist within the disciplinary boundaries of the sociological part of urbanism, in the sociology of architecture, and as a separate branch of historical architectural studies. The theoretical and practical importance of such interaction is explained by the fundamental disciplinary complementarity of historical architectural studies and sociology.

A brief literature review of socio-historical architectural studies reveals the importance of studying just the methodology of sociological approach to architectural historiography. A classification of the methodological approaches of sociology and its division by level is provided with the aim of emphasizing differences in the methodological foundations of specific studies (empirical – theoretical, positivistic – understanding). The principles of ‘understanding’ sociology prove to be more important for historical architectural studies since they establish "transition bridges» between the level of architecture and the level of society. Communication between architecture and social phenomena is revealed by identifying the social characteristics of a monument (such as its social functions), by determining types of social influence and the social features and characteristics of society that have a direct bearing on architecture. The basic level of understanding with regard to the organization of the society to which an architectural project studied belongs is ensured by means of a procedure of social stratification of society (macro- and micro-sociology).

The source base features a certain degree of breadth. To resolve sociological issues in the area of history of architecture, use is made of not only data from related disciplines but also of their methods. Given such approach, the ultimate result of the work is an understanding of the socio-cultural meaning of an architectural object which spreads beyond the genesis and functional aspects, which are regarded as priorities today. This opens new prospects for the advancement of this method.

Gudkov Alexey A., Шемелина Дарья Сергеевна
ВЛИЯНИЕ ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКИХ ОСНОВ ФОРТИФИКАЦИИ С. ВОБАНА НА ПРОЕКТЫ ПЕРЕПЛАНИРОВКИ МАЛЫХ КРЕПОСТНЫХ ЕДИНИЦ ИРТЫШСКОЙ ЛИНИИ 1765 Г.

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №3 (11) September, 2005