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)
N. V. Shagov, I. D. Veriovkina, E. N. Poliakov.
Architecture without Analogues. The Architecture of Wooden Industrial Buildings of the Altai Territory in the First Half of the 20th Century
The authors offer some materials collected during field research in the Altai Region, conducted from 1988 to 1992. Analysis is given regarding three different types of wooden buildings. These are: the horse ranch of Tumentsevski horse breeding farm, a mill situated in the settlement of Ust-Pristan’ and Granary “Mastodont”, erected in the town Kamen-na-Obi. These edifices are an example of the general structure of agricultural complexes that were erected from 1910 to 1930 in Russia. All the mentioned buildings are united by the unique scheme of their construction solutions and have no analogues in world architecture.
Keywords
Horse ranch, horse riding, barn, mill, grain-processing complex, unique wooden structures.