Private Houses Architecture of Postmodern Epoch

The article has an overview-analytical character of the development of the private residential country houses architecture in foreign countries in the epoch of postmodernism. Currently, it is relevant to comprehend contemporary creative approaches to the artistic aspect of designing suburban individual dwelling. An analysis of the experience of the postmodern leaders, on a number of concrete examples, made it possible to determine the main ways and directions in search of foreign architects – leaders of postmodernism. The break with traditions, with the environment, peculiarities of a particular place, the lack of plastic means of the art arsenal in the new architecture of the beginning of the 21st century in the housing construction under the conditions of economic recession naturally leads to increased attention to the author’s and stylistic concepts of postmodernists when designing houses. The article considers creative approaches of foreign architecture masters, such as postmodern neoclassicism, neotraditionalism, and neo-regionalism, contextualism, metaphor, which make it possible to solve the problems of the artistic side of the architecture of an individual suburban house.

A.A. HOODIN, Candidate of Architecture (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.),
O.V. ORELSKAYA, Doctor of Architecture

Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (65, Ilyinskaya Street., Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russian Federation)

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