2024 № 4 (51)

UDC 7.01; 72.01

LBC 85.11; 85.118

DOI: 10.51678/2226-0072-2024-4-526-555

For cit.: Dutsev M.V. Contemporary Language of Architecture. The Individuality of an Architect in the Space of a Modern City. Hudozhestvennaya kul’tura [Art & Culture Studies], 2024, no. 4, pp. 526–555. https://doi.org/10.51678/2226–0072–2024–4–526–555. (In Russian)

Dutsev Mikhail V.

Doctor of Architecture, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Architectural Environment Design, Professor of the Department of Architectural Design, Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering; Professor of the Architecture, Restoration and Design Department of the Engineering Academy, Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow; Leading Researcher of the Department of Problems of the Theory of Architecture, Institute of the Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Development; Councilor of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, Academician of the National Academy of Design, Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Culture and Art, Member of the Union of Artists of Russia, 65 Ilinskaya Str., Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8892-6841

ResearcherID: O-3458-2018

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Contemporary Language of Architecture. The Individuality of an Architect in the Space of a Modern City

Abstract. The current communication between the architect and their addressee (the user of the environment) through architectural works, various creative spatial practices, utopias and manifestos is significantly hampered by the presence of a serious gap in the cultural tradition of architectural art perception. This is especially noticeable today in the situation of a growing variety of personal author’s approaches, social, technological, environmental and, of course, aesthetic turns. However, it will be incorrect to consider this acute problem, the communicative crisis, a ‘disaster’, an unambiguous decline of architecture, or the collapse of the culture of civilization. Some puzzling autonomy of the profession, or even more often, of its individual representatives, the birth of borderline architectural and artistic initiatives, ‘strange’ alternative trends, as well as the individual choice of the ‘spectator’ of this ‘performance’, determine the development of new patterns of thinking within the most contemporary architecture, on its borders and beyond. It would be more accurate to say that today’s civilizational stage is characterized by the coexistence of closed and open systems, unique ‘personal’ styles and complex ‘hybrids’ at the junction of functional, contextual, interactive, and artistic scenarios.

The study suggests reflecting on the possibility of orienting oneself in the multidimensional present and looking a little into the future, collecting new thoughts, languages, and forms in a single wandering field, seeing some probable constants that will allow the productive encounter of the different and outline the ways for the emergence of new forms of the environmental consensus and the ways to overcome such frequent alienation of the new architecture.

Keywords: contemporary architecture, architectural environment, architect, individuality, artistic integration, communication

The article was prepared within the framework of the 2024 Program of Fundamental Scientific Research of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences and the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation.

The author of the article expresses his deepest gratitude to the Teacher and colleague Oleg Alexandrovich Krivtsun, who left us last year, for the research vectors he had outlined in contemporary art criticism and philosophy of art, for inspiration and invaluable support.

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Received 09.07.2024

Accepted 05.09.2024