Open AccessPARALLELS OF EUROPEAN STRUCTURALISM IDEAS IN LITHUANIAN ARCHITECTURE
Author(s) -
Liutauras Nekrošius
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of architecture and urbanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 2029-7955
pISSN - 2029-7947
DOI - 10.3846/13921630.2006.10697072
Subject(s) - lithuanian , parallels , structuralism (philosophy of science) , modernism (music) , architecture , style (visual arts) , aesthetics , sociology , epistemology , literature , history , philosophy , art , archaeology , linguistics , engineering , mechanical engineering
One of the most controversial periods of architectural history, which has been identified with avant-garde of philosophy, art, music and science, in Lithuania is laconically described as soviet modernism. One of contemporary architectural phenomena, which is characterized as a part of soviet modernism, is structuralism. In Lithuania it developed as a reaction to creative results of a modernistic style. The text concentrates on one segment of a wider research of structuralism ideas in contemporary Lithuanian architecture. The paper discusses the basic concepts of structuralistic architecture and their genesis, reviews the manifestation of these ideas in Lithuania and other European countries. Attention is paid to ideas which determined changes in townscape. Supposedly, such a review will help to define peculiarities in the genesis and development of structuralistic tendencies in Lithuania and understand their influence on architectural development in the country.