all you need is art

Interesting, how summer could become very-very busy once you get inspiration for actually doing something. Before, I was considering myself a person, who is an inspiration to himself. However, now learning who I am and what my values are, I see that I also need a mentor and a way to recharge myself with some thrust. What really made me feel energetic for creation is the website called Visualizing…

Composition Around the Void. 2014.

“Composition around the Void” shows emptiness as an object. I did not show planes of the void; however, the planes are readable from turns and corners made with tangent surfaces. By defining the planes of the Void, I was able to create the shape of it; and the infinite concept got its limits. The surfaces rise from the ground plane in rotation motion around the vertical axis of the void space.…

This project comes from far 2013 when I have just started an architecture school in Novosibirsk, Russia. This project was the very first attempt for me to create a spatial composition. It was not connected to any site and any context, only to study elements and groups of elements. In this composition, I was trying to balance both sides of the street, while maintaining their asymmetry. Even…

Introduction to the manifesto

A lot of time passed since my last post, I was thinking about this blog and what I could write here, but each time a perfectionist thought was striking my mind: “what if?”. Each time I put this task to another time. Today, I thought that I should not take the blog in this way, on the opposite, I am going to make this place as a ground for my thoughts and sketches. My thoughts and sketches are not…

Recently I performed a revision of my photo archive and saw that there are quite a few places that I could share. The most recent trip that we have done is the trip to Biloxi, MS. We just spent a couple of days there; however, it gives a sense of the road trip. Coming to Biloxi after seeing the Mississippi landscape feels like going to another state. The seashore side is quite different from the…

Today I have attended the final jury of the new Summer I-A group in my university. I did not know at what time it would start, but I accidentally arrived just on time. The review was very small, almost private. We were just 7 summer students, three professors, one fifth-year student, and me. I have a few reasons to come there. Maybe I already miss the architecture school, concepts and moves, I…

During the last semester I have heard a lot of bad things about Revit. This software is claimed to be the the killer of creativity, where you just need to place some walls, create some rooms, put windows and doors, and call it a building… However, our school curriculum requires us to use Revit for majority of our study as a tool which is widely used in firms nowadays. I was quite upset, that I…

MSU Golf course shelters, design-built studio

I seems so far there was not any review about the Mississippi Golf shelters from me. I was describing how I was designing panels and what kind of ideas I got of how to create these panels. It was a pretty intense semester in best traditions of architecture schools. In order to eliminate any confusions. We built two bathrooms in the Mississippi State University Golf course. Each building has two…

Still I cannot believe that I am in this school studying Architecture. I cannot believe that I crossed this threshold of summer vacations and started my second year. I cannot believe that my crazy dream about working in collaboration with Building Construction Science people came true. I cannot believe we are creating a real building this semester. It seems that there is nothing more natural than…

vacations of an architecture student

I am glad to find myself on vacations, even after two more days. Nowadays I really make myself busy with different legal stuff and self-learning along with cooking, and cleaning of the apartments. I really enjoy the summer days, however, I am so much excited about the new semester.

The university is about to start again, the students came here a few days ago, the campus is full of people who…

How people could feel like an architect after two months of school

Hello everyone! I was not here for while, and now I am coming as a totally different person. During the time of being away, I grew up and changed so many things. During this time I finished my first year of architecture studio in two months. Now no more no less, I feel like entering the architecture market. Being so much excited nowadays, I could not imagine how I would transform into such a…

milestone is almost reached

I am still here, in Starkville. The first semester is going to finish. It was full of general courses and I really feel I become more professional in something general :) The study is going to be a little bit hectic, as it is right now. I would like to notice how I will be changing throughout my study, how my language and perception will change. There are so many things developing in this period.…

Developing the street sign sketches

Life is going and going and going on. I happy to realize that anything I do is not a repetition…

One image for the project

This image is a reference for the thumbnail: Shaving? No!

This one is quite popular in Russia and…