Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Neoclassical Revival in the Architecture of St. Petersburg/Petrograd: Polemic and Practice

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2017 10 (2)
Authors
Brumfield, William C.
Contact information
Brumfield, William C.: Tulane University New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; E-mail :
Keywords
Architecture of St. Petersburg; neoclassical revival; journal Starye Gody; journal Apollon; style moderne; Vienna Secession; Oskar Munts; Fedor Lidval; Ivan Fomin; Carlo Rossi; Vladimir Shchuko; Marian Lialevich; Marian Peretiatkovich; Georgii Lukomskii; apartment buildings; bank buildings
Abstract

After 1905 a reaction against the modernist movement in architecture appeared in the work of architects and critics who supported a revival of Neoclassicism in Russian architecture. Although the new classicism provided the means to apply technological and design innovations within an established tectonic system, it was also widely interpreted as a rejection of the unstable values of individualism and the bourgeois ethos. Neoclassical architecture became the last hope for a reconciliation of contemporary architecture with cultural values derived from an idealization of imperial Russian grandeur. Yet the revival of Neoclassicism ultimately manifested the same lack of aesthetic unity and theoretical direction as had the style moderne, thus leading certain critics and architects to question the social order within which architecture functioned in the decades before the 1917 revolution. This debate would have lasting repercussions for Soviet architecture

Pages
150-167
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/31515

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