Authors

Kostova Evgeniya V.
ARCHITECTURAL DYNAMICS OF FORM-BUILDING IN THE SOVIET NEOCLASSICISM IN WESTERN SIBERIA IN THE 1930s – 1950s

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №3 (75) September, 2021

The development of Soviet neoclassicism in Western Siberia is considered from the perspective of a system-genesis approach as a successive process involving a three-stage scheme of system selection: diversifying, directing and stabilizing selection of architectural forms. The regional specifics of the Western Siberian variant of Soviet neoclassicism are established as consisting in considerable prevalence of the regulatory function in form selection over the function of their creative combining, given a broader base and material for making choices compared with the metropolitan architecture, which developed in more favorable conditions. For this reason, the Western Siberian peripheral analog of Soviet neoclassicism emerged as a strong link in the integral system of USSR’s imperial architecture, playing into the enhancement of the spirit of collectivism with weakened national architectural forms and less expressed spirit of individualism.