Main entry:

Harutʻyunyan, T. V. (Tigran Vladimiri), 1983-

Title & Author:

Architectural Guide : Yerevan / Tigran Harutyunyan ; with additional contributions by Yuri Avvakumov [and four others].

Publication:

Berlin : DOM Publishers, ©2018.

Description:

295 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portraits ; 25 cm

Notes:
Guide.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronology -- A city of dreams -- The middle ages -- The Tsarist period -- The provencial modern -- A palimpsest -- The subsequent era -- Origins of the dream -- Creation of the pink city : under socialist skin -- The Tamanyan era -- Armenian constructivism -- Emergence of the cityscape : nationalism with a taste of totalitarianism -- Deconstruction -- Northern avenue -- A reverie that never came true. The Cafésjian Museum -- From competition to reality -- Another reverie : "Armenian culture started to develop outside of Armenia" -- Conclusion -- Buildings and projects -- Republic Square -- Abovyan street -- Hanrapetutyan street -- Shahumyan Square -- Along the Hrazdan Gorge -- Mashtots avenue -- Paronyan and Proshyan streets -- Baghramyan avenue -- The Boulevard Ring and more -- Beyond the centre -- Readings on Yerevan -- The spirit of the city -- Vernacular architecture in modern Yerevan : 1850-1950 -- The pursuit to capture Yerevan's urban identity -- Yerevan summer -- Spitak : the last petrified Soviet utopia.

Summary:

Yerevan and Mount Ararat - which is within clear view - occupy significant places within Armenian culture, even allowing that today's capital once lay elsewhere prior to the devastating earthquake of 1679 and also that Mount Ararat now falls within Turkish territory. Natural catastrophes together with the genocide of 1915 are etched deeply into the identity and consequently the architecture of Armenia. This architectural guide traces the history of Yerevan on the basis of street outlines which played such a decisive role in determining how construction would develop. Armenian Constructivism, the national style, Soviet Modernism and the role of the Armenian diaspora are all themes which find expression in narrative form. An additional excursion takes the reader off to Spitak which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1988 and was supposed to be rebuilt elsewhere as the last model city of the Soviet Union. This architectural guide therefore concludes with questions about the essential nature and character of the modern Armenian city too.

ISBN:

9783869223575 (pbk.)
386922357X (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Armenia (Republic) Yerevan Guidebooks.
Architecture Arménie Erevan Guides.
Architecture Armenia (Republic) Guidebooks.
Architecture
Buildings
Yerevan (Armenia) Buildings, structures, etc. Guidebooks.
Yerevan (Armenia) Buildings, structures, etc.
Armenia (Republic) Yerevan.

Form/genre:

Guidebook
travel guidebooks.
Guidebooks
Guides touristiques.

Added entries:

Avvakumov, I︠U︡riĭ, 1957-

Yerevan

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319148
Call No.: 319148
Copy: 1
Status: Available