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. | Zakirova Tatiana Rifgatovna E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it candidate of architecture, assistant professor Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering The organization address: 420043, Russia, Kazan, Zelenaya st., 1 Asadullin Enver Zakievich E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it candidate of technical sciences, associate professor Kazan Cooperative Institute The organization address: 420061, Russia, Kazan, Ershova st., 58 |
| Title of the article | Development of architecture of public buildings of Kazan during the period from the middle 1930 to the middle of 1950th years |
| Abstract. | Problem statement. The purpose of the article is to show how the development of Kazan’s architecture took place from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s using the example of public buildings, as well as to reveal the socio-economic prerequisites for changing the creative direction in Soviet architecture and to show the reflection of this process in the architecture of the city. Results. The desire to reflect the achievements of socialism, as well as the limited plastic language of modern architecture, led to its transition in the mid-1930s to the development of historical heritage, in which two tendencies manifested themselves in the architecture of public buildings in Kazan. The first sought to combine the requirements of a convenient functional organization with the beauty of the compositional techniques of the classical heritage and resorted to styling in the classic spirit, the second used a direct appeal to the forms, techniques and means of previous eras. Both the first and the second tendencies led to the reincarnation of the artistic tasks of architecture into decoration divorced from the demands of the economy and the possibilities of new constructions, but were true in relation to the spiritual ideals of this period. Conclusions. The significance of the results obtained for the architecture of Kazan lies in the fact that the appeal of architects in the period under review to the architecture of the past again gave the right to exist to those progressive traditions and architectural tools that had been developed over the centuries and for a certain period were put aside. These are the ensemble of architectural solutions, the use of the synthesis of architecture with visual arts, the identification of plastic volumes, warmth, humanity of forms, etc. At the same time, it cannot be said that the architecture of Kazan of this period only repeated the forms and techniques of the architecture of previous epochs, it also introduced a new one: the enlarged scale of squares and streets, the new spatial organization of volumes and can serve as an example now, when architects again, after a period functionalism and standardization, to the plastic language of the architecture of previous eras. |
| Keywords. | public buildings, architectural development, creative orientation. |
| For citations: | Zakirova T.R., Asadullin E.Z. Development of architecture of public buildings of Kazan during the period from the middle 1930 to the middle of 1950th years // Izvestiya KGASU. 2019. №2(48) P.48-55. |
