Today Aptekarskii Order of the State Museum of Architecture. MUAR opens exhibition devoted to the architecture of Leningrad 1920-30-ies

Today, March 3, at 19:00 in Aptekarskii Order of the State Museum of Architecture. MUAR will be opening the exhibition "Leningrad. Weekdays new style ».

exhibition is devoted to the harsh and rigid architecture 1920-30-ies. In its basis - the material from the museum, presented collections department of the twentieth century architectural graphics and unique photographs. Architecture of Leningrad and admire his amazing devotion to the classical heritage. This tendency is evident even during the active pursuit of the avant-garde 1920's, when the innovation has always coexisted with traditional classics.

Graphic heritage architects of that period - a unique phenomenon in the history of art, it can be put in one series with an artistic pattern. Drawing was a complete composition with the presence of the plot. The drawings ordinary urban residents are dressed in evening gowns and suits, in the photo they appear in cotton dresses, scarves and jackets. Household more photos resist the ideal world of architectural graphics.

aim of the exhibition is an attempt to distract from the architecture in its traditional sense, with the plans, facades, sections, and allow the imagination to be among the audience the streets of Leningrad, walk on its areas, feel their particular rhythm and atmosphere. The buildings constructed in these years in Leningrad, form a unified and static fabric of the city, against which reveals the daily life of citizens, with a characteristic for that time, transportation, household details of a bygone fashion.

Exhibition based on the principle of separation of the city into districts, each of which has a characteristic set of buildings. Center area in 1920-30-ies were residential areas, built near the factories, they were concentrated around the schools, cultural centers, hospitals, baths. The idea of presenting the material relates to the background issues of authorship and the characteristics of architectural design, the stylistic features of creative directions, but you can fully acquaint viewers with the way the Leningrad architects - AI Gegello, IA Fomin, GA Simonov, A. Nikolsky , NA, Trotsky and many others - have formed the image of the new city.

exhibition will run until March 25, 2010.

Source: muar.ru