Lecture by Anton Glikin (New York) "Russian Autocratism and and Universal Particularities of Russian Classicism"

 
01.03.2014
 
School of Arts and Cultural Heritage

In comparison with its Western counterpart, the architecture of Russian classicism has only partly been included in world architectural historiography. The reason for this is the range of social, historiographical, and political factors, which are responsible for the peculiarities of the environment of the development of Russian classicism. In contrast, Western European neoclassicism produced a far more transparent paradigm, well-thought out in the both the general cultural sphere and in professional contexts. In the lecture the history of the historiography of the interpretation of Russian classicism will be presented, as well as suggested possibilities of means of intergration of the Russian classical tradition in theory and practice in contemporary traditionalism.

Anton Glinkin is a neoclassical architect, the Design Director of Peter Pennoyer Architects, and the president of the Classical City Association (New York). Mr. Glinkin graduated from the Tavricheksaya Art School in 1990, the St. Petersburg State Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in 1997 and the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture in 1996. In 2010, he defended his candidate’s dissertation at the Philosophy Department of SPbGU. Mr. Glinkin is a laureate of the Arthur Ross Prize for “Outstanding Achievement in the Classical Tradition” (New York, 2003), received an award from the Royal Academy of Arts (London, 1998), and the winner of a competition to design an Olympic monument (Atlanta, built in 1997), and the Millennium Gate (Atlanta, built in 2008). The architect combines practical with the publication of articles and lectures in New York, London, and St. Petersburg.