The Kazakhstan’s Architecture of the 21st Century Beginning (Trends of Forms Evolution). The Album of typical examples

Almaty, 2016. — 105 p. The Kazakhstan's architecture of this Century is a peculiar phenomenon. The trend of active involvement in the World architectural process for Kazakhstan architecture emerged in the last quarter of the 20th century. Now the Kazakhstan architecture – an integral part of this process. Many foreign architects involved in the design of objects on the Kazakhstan territory; Kazakhstan's architects work in different countries. This promotes deep interpenetration of creative concepts. This formed the phenomenon of Kazakh architecture of the 21st century. It is organically connected to the cultural and historical identity of the Region and global processes of creative interpretation of forms, which are characteristic of World architectural process in general. TRENDS OF FORMS EVOLUTION: The Neo-EXPRESSIONISM (The Romanticism version and The Deconstructivism version); The Neo-SYMBOLISM (The Signedness version and The Synthetical version); The Neo- CLASSICISM (The Strict version and The Simplistic version). To illustrate this interesting phenomenon allocated 72 typical examples of buildings. Examples are distributed in chronological order of the construct completion. Images sources are indicated directly near with illustrations on each page. This Album generated for information purposes of the Educational course "The Modern architecture (21st century)". The front cover: The Office Building «K-CELL» – reconstruction, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2013 – Photo by K.I.Samoilov, 2013. The Four-storey house, Europolis complex, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2005 (Arch. Konstantin I.Samoilov – Urbostyle, BC Europolis) – Photo by K.I.Samoilov, 2015. For the first time analyzed the process of development and peculiarity of architectural-artistic forms in the Kazakhstan architecture of the 20-century. Concentrate of the attention on various lines of this development. Regarded in that light consider series ancient and medieval architectural works, architecture of the 19-certury and of the first years of the 21-century. The most valuable illustrations displaying about 2700 architectural works and vast bibliographical list make the monograph a unique encyclopedic edition. For architects, art-critics and historians. 4 Historically architectural-artistic forms 11 11 21 36 The Architecture of XIX - early XX century 40 43 79 124 The architecture of the first half of the XX century 133 136 154 218 318 The Architecture of the second half of XX century 337 340 425 610 627 627 630 743 826 835 849 888 898 902 930 931