PRS Europe PhD Examination - Alexey Ginzburg (School of Architecture and Urban Design - RMIT University)
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The Agency of Architectural Appearances in Moscow’s Ambiguous Urban Culture: the Practice of Ginzburg Architects - PhD Examination by Alexey Ginzburg
This study is an attempt to define the nature of work of a contemporary architect in a highly contextual city through the example of our practice in Moscow. In carrying out the study, it was necessary to analyse the trajectory of Moscow’s development, to define the specific features of the urban fabric that exists today, and to explain the complex transformation that the city went through in the twentieth century.
The architectural tactics used by our office in the projects that are in the focus of this research brought us to working on buildings as elements that ‘complete’ the existing space of the city in a particular way. This thesis is conditioning and exploring a transition from an empirical situational relationship with the context of the city to a reflective dialogue with the multidimensional structure of the city’s urban fabric and its public spaces.