Seduced architecture. The line of millennia. Lepork A.

By the seventies of the XX century, it became boring from the monotony and straight angles of our time (including L. I. Brezhnev). The architects, as it turned out, too. And then a miracle happened - the architecture woke up. Some played with the structure, others with a form, others with materials, the fourth with all together. As a result, the world has become in a new way, from Sydney to Oslo. Everyone rushed to look at new buildings, and cities - to compete with each other. It was then that architecture became the most fashionable of the arts, and soon the pursuit of WoW began.

The architecture barely kept up in the race for success, strongly succumbing to the temptation of recognition. But its relevance at the turn of the millennia was indisputable, the variety is not clear.

a sparkling, cunning organized world of modern architecture will be an art critic and architectural critic, a researcher at the State Hermitage, Alexei Lepork. His exciting essays pose the necessary questions and leave the space interested in the reader to search for answers. And simple and unambiguous solutions in this world seemed to be not.