SAKEN NARYNOV’S ARTWORKS: THE SYMBIOSIS OF ARCHITECTURE AND TOPOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS

The works of Kazakh architect Saken Narynov attract researchers from various countries due to their innovative features. His works divided into three groups: topological experiments; public and residential buildings; futuristic projects. The article is based on the study of scientific papers, conversations with the architect, as well as design and graphic documents from the master’s archive. The analysis S. Narynov’s works allows to identify new directions in the modern regional architecture of Kazakhstan.

Directions of the research into a style in wooden architecture of Siberia

Globalization and widespread active introduction of architectural forms, techniques, materials and building technologies pose a problem of finding regional identity, particularity and uniqueness of the style in architecture. Consideration of history and traditions of regional architecture is one of the ways to reveal this identity and uniqueness. Wooden architecture is traditional for Siberia. It has hardly evolved stylistically since the 1920s. Studying stylistic formation in wooden architecture of Siberia in the late 19th – early 20th centuries, including modern, will help to identify the peculiarities of the local style and culture. The style can be considered from the point of view of philosophy of architecture and art as a unique manifestation of regional culture, as one of the ways to create (recreate) cultural identity, particularity and uniqueness, and as a source of information on a variety of techniques and forms of wooden architecture in Siberia.

Forgotten shelters of Kłodzko Land. On architecture inspired by the local building tradition

The article addresses the problem of the decline in the number of tourist facilities with outstanding features of regional architecture, built before 1945 in Kłodzko Land. Their destruction is an irreparable loss for the cultural heritage of the described region. Usually designed in the spirit of the local building tradition – born out of centuries of experience of the people living here – hostels, inns and taverns were a characteristic, regional distinguishing feature of the landscape of Kłodzko Land. Meanwhile, the new architecture of objects related to tourism, built after the end of the Second World War, most often does not refer to the characteristic forms and structures of local buildings. The article stresses the need to put an end to the often deliberate practice of destroying old pre-war buildings and to draw the attention of architects working today to the importance of continuing local, regional forms in the emerging tourist facilities.

Outdoor Living Room

In the 1940s and 50s, Florida modernist architects developed a regional house—The Florida Tropical Home—that the Miami architect Robert Law Weed (1897–1961) inaugurated with his design of the Florida Tropical Home at the 1933 Century of Progress Fair in Chicago. One of the attributes of the Florida Tropical Home was the unification of indoor and outdoor spaces, through a fusion of landscape architecture and the interior of the house. Architects deployed multiple design strategies to achieve this fusion of indoors and outdoors. An annual architecture magazine—Florida Architecture—documented the increasing unification of indoor-outdoor spaces from the 1940s into the 50s. The magazine’s editorial advisory board comprised progressive architects such as—Weed, Wahl Snyder (1910–1989), Igor Polevitzky (1911–1978), Robert Little (1915–1982), and Alfred Browning Parker (1916–2011)—whose projects were featured as experiments in tropical homes. This paper will investigate how the Florida Tropical Home in the 1940s and 50s redefined the relationship between indoors and outdoors— from one of separation to one of unification. Through an analysis of the homes published in Florida Architecture, this study concludes that the architects developed a Florida regional architecture that was based on new relationships between indoors and outdoors.

Medieval ornamentation of the mausoleum of Aisha Bibi is the identity key of the regional architecture of Kazakhstan in the 21ST century

The article is dedicated to the architectural monument of Kazakhstan, the mausoleum of Aisha Bibi, called by the architect Т.K. Basenov «the jewel of memorial architecture of Kazakhstan and treasury of the Kazakh ornamental art». The mausoleums of Aisha Bibi and Babaji Khatun were built in the XI-XII centuries and are located 18 km southwest of Taraz city. The mausoleum is the identity key of the regional architecture of Kazakhstan in the XXI century.

PUSAT SENI BELADIRI KUNTAU DI DESA BARIKIN

The Kuntau Martial Arts Center in Barikin Village is a facility that accommodates the local community in learning, developing and preserving the local Banjar martial arts. The architectural problem raised in this report is how the design of the banjar’s typical kuntau martial arts center can accommodate training activities and kuntau performances. The concept proposed for the design is the concept of a Cultural Education Recreation with a Vernakular-based Regional Architecture approach. This Concept raises the character of kuntau culture and banjar culture into the form of kuntau martial arts center building

Restoration of I. O. Shenderov’s House in Rostov-on-Don

The article reviews the history of I. O. Shenderov’s rental house designed by Rostov-on-Don city architect Nicolay Matveevich Sokolov (1859-1906) and the restoration of the cultural resource of regional significance. The aim of the study is to analyze the measures for restoration and protection of one of the largest rental houses in Rostov-on-Don. As a result, basic methods and techniques were revealed to be used in contemporary restoration of regional architecture of the late XIXth century.

Characteristics and application of regional building materials in Lingnan area: a case study of Casa da Cheang in Macao

Traditional local material is an important way to express regional architecture. As the most direct carrier to reflect regional characteristics, materials can realize the adaptability of regional architecture to the greatest extent. In this article, through analysis on brick, stone, earth, oyster shell as a representative of the Lingnan area regional traditional materials, material properties, an analysis of the regional characteristics of expression, as a case study of Casa da Cheang details its expression and function of regional material, for Lingnan area offer reference for the development of the regional architecture.