Manifesto of Dialectical Synthetism and Architecture - Погудин Юрий Александрович

Юрий Погудин

Manifesto of Dialectical Synthetism and Architecture

1. Architecture has come a huge way in its history, and now it is entering new frontiers. The 21

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2. The modern world is once again torn apart by spiritual and territorial contradictions. The spiritual identity of peoples and civilizations is not a uniform monolith, and it should not be one. Just as every person has his own life path his destiny, so every nation and every country has its own destiny.

3. Art and architecture are those areas of creativity where people with different worldviews can be united in understanding and feeling beauty.

4. Many previous creative and architectural manifestos are characterized by negativism as a negation of the previous major style. Thus, modernism dismisses the classics (remaining connected with it in a sense of proportions), and parametricism dismisses modernism. Dialectical architecture considers the history of forms and their meanings as a struggle and unity of opposites. In achieving such unity, synthesis becomes the key category.

5. It is possible to apply the dialectical triad to the construction of geometric forms, and consider forms and their parts and qualities within an architectural composition as theses, antitheses and syntheses.

6. In determining the criteria for a new architectural beauty, we can rely on the theory of the dialectical synthesis of opposites. The dialectical synthesis is not only a well-known synthesis of the arts. This is a direct form-building synthesis of the opposites of the entire aesthetic range of the architects tools presented as tangible and geometric genesis of an architectural composition in the expressive form of reasonable space.