Authors

Lapshina Elena G.
A NEW CITY: ARCHITECTURAL IMAGE, SPATIAL SYMBOL, AND MYTH

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №4 (52) December, 2015

The author presents a study on spatial meaning images for new cities emerging in the context of the evolving techno-civilisation. The semantic aspect of architectural space is considered in its historical dynamics with reference to a historical and a new city as a human habitat, as well as its essence. Basic differences in spatial images and symbols between a new city and a historical one are identified. The architectural space of a city is considered through the lens of spatial image, symbol and mythologization unavoidably accompanying the sacralization of the place of residence by a human individual as the centre of his/her Universe.

Lapshina Elena G.
ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL CONCEPTS IN 20th-CENTURY ARCHITECTURE

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №1 (45) March, 2014

The need to change the paradigm of contemporary architectural theory requires revisiting its central category, i.e. space. A review of the spatial concepts proposed by some domestic and international authors makes the author decline the idea of architectural space as an exclusively ideal category in architectural theory. The article shows a new area of research into the nature of architectural space involving its material component.