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Muscovite rate - rate 4950 rubles. from Level One, training 8 lectures for 2 hours, Date: November 29, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / December 01, 2023
A course of 8 lectures on how to understand the capital through history and architecture. We will learn the main things about medieval, tsarist, avant-garde, Stalinist, modernist and modern Moscow, we will see more for ourselves and become reliable guides for friends in any area.
Architectural historian, co-chairman of the historical and cultural society “Moscow Antiquities”. He graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University, and for five years attended lectures at the Moscow Architectural Institute as a free listener. Trained tens of thousands of people to notice architectural details and navigate architectural styles.
“A lot is clear about the building if you look at it carefully. I teach any person to understand architecture and talk about it, even if he knew nothing about it before."
Dmitry is an architecture “maniac” in a good sense. He teaches how to look at architecture for both beginners and professional architects, paying attention to thousands of little things in any building and explaining their essence. He travels to see architectural masterpieces in person. He answers any questions about the date of construction, the names of buildings or the names of architects. Dmitry interacts with the audience like no other. He will pay attention to what you didn’t notice. He will remember stories that will help you emotionally remember new facts, but he will put everything in order. Each lecture is a balanced set of discoveries, tasks and impressions.
Member of the Union of Moscow Architects, art historian. Leading architect of the largest Russian architectural bureau SPEECH, prize-winner of the All-Russian festival of young architects “Perspective-2014”, finalist of the “ArchiGraphics 2013” competition.
"Architecture is the most rational of the arts. The building is built in a certain time, in a certain space, in a modern quarter or a historical one. And when an architect creates, he creates places for this. This is not a white sheet of paper on which you draw whatever you want. This is a place with history, borders, lighting, neighbors. This creates an interesting problem that architects solve."
Alexandra is an insider in the world of architecture. During working hours, Alexandra is engaged in design in the main architectural bureau of the country, in her free time - participates in architectural competitions, art exhibitions, and is working on a dissertation on history architecture. And on top of that, he gives lectures. Alexandra knows how to find interesting topics that no one else will talk about. Alexandra has experience explaining architecture to people who have nothing to do with architecture. She carefully selects ideas and examples and presents everything consistently and completely. So each lecture looks like a well-rehearsed performance about the closed world of architects.
Modern Moscow
- Let's talk about what happened in the architecture of Moscow from perestroika to the present day.
- Let's look at the key architectural trends of this era: postmodernism, neoclassicism, modernism, eclecticism, romanticism.
- Let us highlight the figures of the key architects of Moscow of this period.
Soviet modernism: Khrushchev buildings and mass development
- Let’s look at the first experiments with industrial housing using the example of the Sandy Streets, Kuusinen Street and the University metro station area.
- Let’s find out from which area the history of the “Khrushchevka” and the prototypes of the Moscow series began.
- Let's look at the development and architecture of the first mass series in Khoroshevo-Mnevniki.
- We’ll see how architects tried to solve the problem of the monotony of the facades of the first “Khrushchev” buildings in Fili.
- Let’s discuss changes in the series of standard residential buildings of the 1970s in Strogino, Yasenevo and Krylatskoye and find out how city planners tried to make district layouts more expressive and why “round” houses appeared.
Stalinist architecture: high-rise buildings, avenues and subways
- Let's talk about the master plan for the reconstruction of Moscow.
- We will find out what principles of urban planning were developed by Soviet architects and engineers, and what is the legacy of that time in modern Moscow.
- Let's see how wide avenues, parks and city highways came into being.
- Let's discuss famous high-rise buildings, squares and ordinary residential buildings.
- Let's figure out how Stalinist architecture emerged outside of Moscow, and look at provincial buildings.
Avant-garde and art deco: bold experiments
- Let's talk about why the avant-garde arose and what groups existed within the avant-garde.
- Let's discuss how Art Deco arose in Soviet architecture and how it developed simultaneously with the avant-garde.
- Let's find out why neoclassicism continued to be one of the key trends in architecture and how it coexisted with other styles.
Moscow Art Nouveau: mansions inside and out
- Let's discuss the advantages and disadvantages of eclecticism.
- Let's look at the distinctive features of Art Nouveau and find out why this style has become so popular.
- We will find out how the interior decoration of the house influenced the external appearance and why the architects invited artists.
- Let's look at the buildings of GUM and the Historical Museum, which completed the formation of the ensemble of Red Square, the masterpieces of Fyodor Shekhtel - Yaroslavsky Station, the mansions of Ryabushinsky and Zinaida Morozova.
Pre-revolutionary Moscow
- Let's find out how Peter I saw the Europeanization of Moscow, what he brought from the Great Embassy and how he changed the habits of the townspeople.
- Let’s find out what Anna Ioannovna built in Moscow and what the Germans have to do with it.
- Let’s look at which of Elizabeth Petrovna’s favorite architects transformed Moscow and added “Elizabethan Baroque” to its appearance.
- Let’s understand why Catherine II tried to rebuild the whole of Moscow, but quickly abandoned her idea.
- Let's discuss who Alexander I sent to restore Moscow and how the city was reconstructed by a Frenchman, a Swiss and a Russian.
- Let's talk about what happened in Moscow in the second half of the 19th century - how the development of industry, trade and transport influenced the appearance of the city.
Medieval Moscow
- Let’s analyze the radial-ring structure of the city, which took shape in the Middle Ages, and find traces of these rings in the modern layout of Moscow.
- Let’s find out the basic principles of civil architecture construction using the example of the surviving stone chambers of Varvarka and Zamoskvorechye.
- We will see how European architectural trends penetrate Moscow architecture using the example of Naryshkin style temples.
Moscow from its foundation to the center of Rus'
- Let’s find out what prerequisites Moscow had to become a powerful political center.
- Let’s find out why the head of the Russian Church is transferring his throne to Moscow.
- Let’s look at how the modern structure began to take shape in Moscow: from the Danilovsky and Epiphany monasteries to the roads to Tver, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan - the future main streets of the city.
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