Architecture is the art of construction, dictionaries claim. Add: and the art of communication with the customer, the ability to tune in to his wave. The result of the work directly depends on this. What happens when the architect and the customer, so to speak, exist in one person? That is, when the architect builds for himself? .. Eight representatives of this profession told us about themselves and their homes. All of them are very different, each has its own history ... Anna Apraksina returned to the St. Petersburg communal communal nest status, beauty and dignity. And for the Muscovite Anna Pavlova, her apartment was in an old reconstructed building on the Patriarch's Ponds. Antique grandmother's furniture, which seemed unnecessary in a standard modern apartment, was in its place in the walls of this house. Hayk Vardanyan found the secret of the fourth dimension, skillfully increasing the initially small space. Vladimir Burmistrov built the interior on ethnic symbols and associations. Architect Elena Kochetkova beat in her apartment a magnificent landscape opening on the Zamoskvorechye from the high bank of Moscow - the river ... The country houses of the architects are a separate topic. Vadim Grekov thinks his house as a microcosm, part of the macrocosm. Therefore, pine trees sprout through the roof of the house, and the garden “enters” into the rooms through huge windows. Gulya Akhmetshina and Sergey Barabadze play with the looking glass, building perspectives on the laws of urban planning. There are mirrors in all the rooms, and in them there are reflections of trees ... Artem Levitin lives in a two-level apartment in Kharkov, outside the windows of which a fruit garden is noisy. From the windows opens a breathtaking landscape - the road that goes beyond the horizon ... In literature there is a genre of psychological prose; Architects' houses are a special genre of "psychological architecture". Therefore, it will be useful to supplement the mean definition of a dictionary: architecture for oneself, psychological architecture is ... the art of being oneself.Gulya Akhmetshina We turned an ordinary country house into a country houseElena Kochetkova Just my homeVadim Grekov House is a model of the world, a kind of mini-UniverseHayk Vardanyan My apartment seems almost twice as largeAnna Pavlova My sweet homeAnna Apraksina Open CircleVladimir Burmistrov I love ethnicsArtem Levitin My apartment overlooking the horizon
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