About the authors
| First name, Middle name, Last name, Scientific degree, Scientific rank, Current position. Full and brief name of the organization, The organization address. | Zaytsev A.A. – post-graduate student E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering The organization address: 603950, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod, Ilyinskaya st., 65 |
| Title of the article | Principles of contextualism in architecture |
| Abstract. | Contextualism in our days is the conscious and the required method of design in a historical environment with a certain set of characteristics and properties of factors. These features are identified on the basis of analysis carried out at a town-planning, composition, style, colour and other levels. Further identifies the techniques that are most characteristic in this environment, which are incorporated in the principles of context and selected the most characteristic of them in the town-planning situation. Methods of adaptation can be divided into compositional, morphological, color, style, decorative, figurative symbolic, associative, typological, and also landscape (methods of the adaptation to the natural environment, landscape, when building repeats the form and relief). Methods of adaptation, which are the most characteristic in this environment, combined in the principles of contextualism. Thus, formed the composition, color, style, semiotic, typological, morphological and landmorphical principles of contextualism. This system allows you to create objects, which are interrelated and interact with the environment, organic with it, make it seem as the integral ensemble. |
| Keywords. | Historical environment, interaction, context, ensemble, the methods of adaptation, principles of contextualism. |
| For citations: | Zaytsev A.A. Principles of contextualism in architecture // Izvestiya KGASU. 2013. №2(24) P.46-50. |
