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 71
I. A. Bondarenko.
Russian Church Tent-Roof as a Symbol of the Sky
The paper studies how Christian and pre-Christian idea of the sky is embodied in the architecture of Russian tent-roofed churches. The study relies on medieval canonical and apocryphal texts on cosmology. General aspects of Christian church construction and distinctive features of Old Russian tent-roofed churches have been outlined. Stressing that Russian, European and Asian tent-roof structures have some similarities, the author draws attention to the originality of the Russian ones, explaining that they were designed more by the local masters’ creative interpretation of the world’s structure, reflected in texts and legends, which resonated in the Moscow time especially, rather than by referring to the foreign samples.
Keywords:
architecture, vault, dome, tent-roof, fire, mountain, sky, expanse, axis mundi, geocentric universe, image, archetype, symbol.
Bondarenko Igor Andreevich,
Dr. habil. (Architecture), professor, Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAASN) academician, Research Institute of the Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning (branch of the Central Institute for Research and Design of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation), chief research fellow.
E-mail: igor.bondarenko.54@mail.ru
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