Authors

Shipitsyna Olga A., Luzhetskaya Ekaterina M.
HISTORICISM IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF EKATERINBURG AT THE TURN OF THE 21ST CENTURY: REGIONAL SPECIFICS IDENTIFICATION PROCESS

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №2 (74) June, 2021

The article describes the process of identifying the regional specifics of historicism in the architecture of Ekaterinburg at the turn of the 21st century by studying retrospectively-oriented modern objects in the city with the help of a specially developed methodology. The historical and critical study establishes the chronology and main trends in the formation of historicism, which is followed by a review of the influence of Ekaterinburg’s historical Classicist and Constructivist heritage on retrospectively-oriented modern objects. The regional specifics of Ekaterinburg’s architectural historicism revealed by the study manifest themselves most clearly in spatial planning solutions, facade compositions, decorative elements, color treatments, as well as in visually recognizable roof structures and finishing materials. Over time, the approach of the architects to the use of the forms of the «past» in modern buildings varies from simplification, modernization and reproduction of recognizable silhouettes to the employment of planning and compositional features of historical architecture and more accurately reproduced characteristic techniques and decorative elements of historically significant architectural styles. The stylistic orientation of modern objects to prevailing Classicism and Constructivism in the historical environment of Ekaterinburg suggests a general trend towards the emergence of neostyles in the architecture of the city.

Shipitsyna Olga A., Luzhetskaya Ekaterina M.
REGIONAL HISTORICISM IN ARCHITECTURE: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE STUDY

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №3 (67)

The article summarizes the design and construction practice in large Russian cities at the turn of the 21st century in relation to retrospectively oriented architectural objects and provides a rationale for studying the regional specifics of historicism in architecture at theoretical level as a concept of architectural science and practice. The concept of «regional specifics of historicism in architecture» is regarded as a complex analytical notion including the contents of such well-elaborated architectural research concepts as «historicism in architecture» and «regional features of architecture». In this connection, the article first defines and represents, in the form of models, the contents of the concepts «historicism in architecture» and «regional features of architecture», and then determines and explicitly shows in the final analytical model the contents of the notion «regional specifics of historicism in architecture». The result of these endeavors is a theoretical foundation for regional historicism studies in architecture in the form an analytical model which logically links the main criteria for assessing historicist objects to the basic research method of comparison of esthetic, engineering and functional planning features of retrospectively oriented modern-day architecture and historical buildings in the region.

Luzhetskaya Ekaterina M.
THE NEW AS THE UNFORGOTTEN OLD: «BUSINESS HOUSE ON ARKHIEREISKAYA»

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №1 (65) March, 2019

Extensive building construction in the historic centers of Russian cities has led to the fact that modern objects are built next to architectural heritage buildings. Such nearness obliges architects to use certain techniques for maintaining harmony between the historical environment and modern architecture. The article analyzes the center «Business House on Arkhiereiskaya», which is located on Chapayev Street. This object is one of the successful examples of modern construction in a historical environment. The use of generalized architectural images of 19th century Ekaterinburg has allowed «Business House on Arkhiereiskaya « to fit harmoniously into the historic context of Chapayev Street while also emphasizing it.