Photo excursion to northwestern Valozhyn District: Valozhyn, Bahdanava, Vajhany, Mas’tsishcha, Vishnjeva. Фотавандроўка па паўночна-заходняй частцы Валожынскага раёна: Валожын, Багданава, Вайганы, Масьцішча, Вішнева. Valozhyn 2018. The architectural patrimony of the district center of Valozhyn has suffered grievous neglect and depredations at the hands of the local administration and Orthodox parish. A lack of time meant… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 16, 2018
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Photos of the Day for December 20, 2016
Survey of the architectural patrimony of Maladzjechna 2015 (V/VIII): Old Town Square area. Old Town Square and nearby streets contain a mix of late imperial (both czarist and Soviet) vernacular styles. Экспедыцыя па архітэктурнай спадчыне Маладзечна 2015 г. (V/VIII): каля плошчы Старое Места. Buildings from the end of the XIXth/beginning of the XXth… Continue reading Photos of the Day for December 20, 2016
Photos of the Day for December 19, 2016
Survey of the architectural patrimony of Maladzjechna 2015 (IV/VIII): Soviet post-World War II housing architecture. Except for a brief period of constructivist experimentation in the 1920s, Soviet architecture left a mostly dismal patrimony: buildings and spaces contemptuous of the human scale; dreary pre-fab blocks; kitschy, spoglia-like recycling of classical elements after having brutally rejected the western… Continue reading Photos of the Day for December 19, 2016
Photos of the Day for November 11, 2016
Ashmjany 2015 (part IV/X): Soviet-era architecture along Savjetskaja Street. Soviet architecture started out as a project to mirror the Soviet political agenda of destroying the past. However, after an initial spurt of creativity (constructivism, expressionism) in the 1920s, Soviet architecture lost its ability to offer anything of creative merit. For the most part Soviet-era buildings… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 11, 2016
Photos of the Day for October 28, 2016
Mahiljou 2016 (III/IV): architecture of former Luteranskaja Street, now Mihaja. The street was named Luteranskaja when Russian empress Catherine II, who controlled the eastern Belarusian lands as a result of the first partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772, granted the local German community permission to build a church there in 1780. Магілёў 2016 г.… Continue reading Photos of the Day for October 28, 2016