#9 DISSIDENCE THROUGH ARCHITECTURE
Paper architecture in the Soviet Union. protagonists, teachers and students looking back at the 1980’s
Why the talk is inspiring?
The Conversation is chaired by
INES WEIZMAN
In the late 1970s and 1980s EDAS (Experimentalnaya Detskaya Architekturnaya Studia) was exercising a form of dissidence in workshops run with children and young adults, encouraging them to express their fantasies through drawings and architectural design. The practice could be thought of today as located between pedagogy and therapy – the ‘repair’ of the suppressed imagination of youth living under communism. Through the teaching private imagination and collective fantasy could be liberated. Children drawings were made effective in their uncontrollable and irresistible message calling for independent thought.
2013
Speaker
Liudmila Kirpichev (Maskva), Vladislav Kirpichev (Maskva)
How the speaker is exceptional?
LIUDMILA KIRPICHEV, EDAS mokyklos įkūrėja (Maskva)
“Nei Henri Matisas, nei kuris kitas 20 amžiaus tapytojas nepaišė ir netapė taip lengvai kaip nesukaustyta penkiamečio mintis. Kirpichevų, šiuo metu vienų įdomiausių architektūros mokytojų, praktika parodo, jog šis fenomenas veikia ir kuriant trijų dimensijų kūrinius. Kirpichevai profesionaliose dirbtuvėse dirba su labai mažais vaikais, kur juos moko nupiešti ir pastatyti įvairiausių estetinių savybių turinčias architektūrines struktūras. Vizualinis šių vaikų sukurtų objektų grožis ir stebinantis įtaigumas dažnai pralenkia šiuolaikinių architektų vizijas…” Christian Moeller, Kalifornijos Universiteto Dizaino ir Medijų katedros profesorius, Los Angeles / 2005
RECOMMENDS TO READ
Paper Architecture. New Projects From the Soviet Union
Heinrich Klotz, Alexander G. Rappaport
Why the book is worth reading?
The book is an exhibition catalogue and features one of the most comprehensive oeuvre of Paper Architecture works to date. The catalogue also features student works of the EDAS studio (Studio fur Experimentalle Kinderarchitektur Moskau) led by Vladislav Kirpichev.
RECOMMENDS TO READ
Edas - Design Kommunalka: Non-functional Space
Why the book is worth reading?
Publication of the works by children studying architecture at EDAS studio school.
