New materials regarding research in the fields of architecture and urban construction are being presented. The authors also focus on the history of the creation of little-known buildings of interest, on the development of local architectural traditions, on new attributions, and introduce recently discovered archive materials. A number of papers are dedicated to the issues of architectural and urban planning development of historical towns and cities or study the formation of architectural ensembles. The edition also includes papers that are devoted to theoretical historical-architectural problems, to biographies of architects, or analyze artistic approaches and concepts.
Issue 62 (2015)
Igor Bondarenko.
Regarding Certain Alleged Contradictions in Traditional Views on the Architecture of the Universe
The author analyzes the contradictions in the archaic views on the structure of the universe in connection with the most persistent and universal principals of developing of architectural forms. The paper confirms the idea that the geocentric and plane-domed models of the world did not contradict, but were rather logically supplemented by one another, which gives us a clue to understand the symbolism of different constructions.
Keywords
Traditional architecture, geocentric model of the world, plane-domed model of the world, Medieval cartography, architectural symbolism.
Bondarenko, Igor A.
Ph. D. in Architecture, professor, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, Scientific Research Institute of the Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning, branch of the Federal State Budget Institution “Central Scientific-Research and Project Institute of the Construction Ministry of Russia”, director.
E-mail: niitag@yandex.ru
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