Formation of City-like Structures while Ilya Golosov’s Creative Process

Department of Urban Planning, Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, Moscow, Russia

¹ Corresponding author: o_adamov@mail.ru

Abstract

It’s commonly recognized that Avant-garde creativity begins with almost complete negation and deconstruction of previous cultural background. But examination of architects’ creative work shows that such an act is preceded by their deep study of architectural history and form creation and derivation of their own sets of universal architectural forms and assemblage methods. The purpose of essay is to reconstruct the creative process of Avant-garde architect and to reveal the inclusion of forms, taken from architectural history and regarded as a cultural resource while city-like structures and architectural organisms becoming. The research uses a process approach to study architectural phenomena, interpreted as a further development of structuralism and post-structuralism methods, including analysis of an array of design data, modelling of dynamic structures and accounting the intrusions from alien contexts. Comparative analysis is also used to jointly consider borrowings from different historical contexts and avant-garde neologisms. As a result, it turns out that Golosov doesn’t break or deny, but mentally unscrews aggregate of historical forms to reintegrate the selected forms, in altered order, into the structure of new city-like complex. Hence, to harmonize his work he returns to composition and tectonics and refers to the historical contexts from where forms originated, and they evoke reminiscences.