Manifesto of Dialectical Synthetism and Architecture

Manifesto of Dialectical Architecture
Юрий Александрович Погудин

Dialectical architecture is an architecture whose aesthetical search is based on the desire to synthesize the parameters of the opposition of architectural form, achieving plastic expressiveness in unity with functional consistency and social significance. The philosophical source of the concept is the dialectical philosophy of Alexei Fedorovich Losev (1893 1988).

Юрий Погудин

Manifesto of Dialectical Architecture

1. Architecture has overcome a huge path in history and is entering new frontiers. The XXI century is known for the fact that the architectural world is diverse, what has become more beautiful, what is difficult to distinguish from the ordinary, what is nobler – from the inte– carved. Already at the origins of modern architecture – a century ago – this led to the de-valvation of the concept of beauty. But in its meaning, this concept has not disappeared. Without calling beauty beauty, every modern artist/designer/architect is looking for a form that is both meaningful and beautiful – in accordance with his creative credo.

2. The modern world is once again torn apart by spiritual and territorial contradictions. The spiritual identity of peoples and civilizations is not and should not be a uniform monolith. Just as every person has his own life path – his destiny, so every nation and every country has its own destiny.

3. Art and architecture are those areas of creativity where people with different worldviews can be united in understanding and feeling beauty and beauty.

4. Many previous creative and architectural manifestos are characterized by negativism – as a negation of the previous major style. Thus, modernism devalues the classics (remaining connected with it in a sense of proportion), and parametrism – modernism. Dialectical architecture considers the history of forms and the meanings behind them as a struggle and unity of opposites. In achieving such unity, synthesis becomes the key category.

5. In determining the criteria for a new architectural beauty, we can rely on the theory of dialectical synthesis of opposites. Dialectical synthesis is not only a well-known synthesis of the arts. This is a direct formative synthesis of the opposites of the entire artistic range of the architect's creator's tools, given as a real geometric formation of an architectural composition in the expressive form of an expedient space.

6. The principle of synthesis as the principle of generating new categories from different and opposite phenomena and properties can be taken by practical architects into the arsenal of means of searching for new expressive compositions. The dialectical method has the potential to become key in the future development of general and applied theories of creativity and composition. Architecture on this path is a powerful source of inspiration and creativity.