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 59 (2013)
A. E. Ukhnalev.
Evidence of Stylistic Polyphony in the St. Petersburg Architecture of the Time of Peter the Great
The author, using a number of project designs and turning to certain realized constructions, analyzes a wide specter of stylistic approaches present in architecture during the reign of Peter the Great. The purity of style or, speaking the language of those days, adherence to a manner is a phenomenon less widespread than eclecticism or other versions of the architectural method. The feature that unites many aesthetic schemes is not just indifference regarding a certain consistency in style and the overall integrity of the work; it is, rather, carelessness regarding style as such. Various examples of constructions of similar type (portals), created in different styles in the early 18th century, confirms the fact that we cannot observe a single evolutional tendency in the architecture of the epoch, aimed in one direction.
Keywords
Style, Manner, architecture of the time of Peter the Great, Eclecticism, Project, Portal.