Post-Modernism in the Architecture of Multi-Storey Residential Buildings in the Regions of Russia

An overview of postmodern architecture is given on the example of urban multi-storey residential buildings in large cities in various regions of Russia. On the example of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk, the main directions of architectural search within the framework of postmodernism are revealed. Postmodernism in the early 1990s replaced the typification and standardization of modernism, and it still remains relevant and in demand. Architects strive to find their own individual tools of figurative expression. The article reveals stylistic features, compositional techniques, figurative characteristics, building materials, color solutions with which an artistic result is achieved. It has been established that postmodernism is quite a popular direction among customers and architects when designing residential buildings at the beginning of the XXI century. Various interpretations and references to the architecture of the post-war years appear everywhere. Neoclassicism, neoar deco cope with the task of giving representativeness to modern urban dwellings. To a greater extent, such directions of postmodernism are used as historicism and partial historicism from six directions, which were identified in postmodernism by the theorist of architecture Ch. Jenks. For 30 years, postmodernism in Russian architecture has been coping with the task of figurative expressiveness and bringing an aesthetic component to projects.

E.O. SHIROKOVA, Master of Architecture (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (65, Il’inskaya Street, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russian Federation)

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