Submitted by Aliaksandra Kanonchenka, an artist from Belarus.
We need to change our attitude towards architecture in our country because architecture is part of our past and our future.
1 Panel Houses in Kamennaya Gorka
The landscape is invaded by more and more of the same boring prefabricated ‘panel’ houses. Architecture affects our mood and fully reflects the state of society at a given moment. These grey and monotonous buildings do not have souls, have no national character and have nothing of interest to offer the viewer.
It is important that we live in places that enhance our mood and that our environment should be pleasant, because people are not machines.
panel houses in Kamennaya gorka from Kononchenko Alexandra on Vimeo.
2 Minsk Architecture Forum
This video was a trailer advertising the Minsk Architecture Forum. The forum was designed to identify the urban problems of the city of Minsk and to propose projects to address them.
In Minsk, the major architectural monuments belong to the Soviet era. The most interesting of these were built after the war. The next big landmark, a library, was only to appear many years later, in the 2000s. Money for its construction was raised from all over the country, but no one really seems to like the final product. This means that the only really loveable architecture that remains, is that from the Soviet era.
minsk architectural forum from Kononchenko Alexandra on Vimeo.
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