Essays on poetics and rhetoric architecture. Stepanov A.V.

How does the architect come to the mind "Form" at home? From uninhabited physical and mathematical spaces or from cultural memory, in which this “form” is represented as the experience of life observations? Temple, palace, hotel, government building, office, library, museum, theater. Aidos of the designed house is an invariant of one or another architectural genre developed by this culture; This is a tradition that has been established in this cultural area. On what signs do we recognize these architectural genres? Is there a poetics of dwellings, poetics of educational institutions, poetics of metro stations? Is the poetics of architecture possible?

The author of the book is Alexander Stepanov, candidate of art history, professor of the Institute named after I.E. Repin, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Free Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University.