UDC 72 UDC 711.4

ARCHITECTURAL ENVIRONMENT AS A CONCEPT OF THE CITY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN DERBENT) Architectural environment as a concept of the city (on the example of medieval and modern Derbent)

Published in Smart composite in construction · Volume 4, Issue 1 · Pages 81–90 · Rubric: ARCHITECTURE OF BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES. CREATIVE CONCEPTS OF ARCHITECTURAL ACTIVITY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52957/27821919_2023_1_81
Received: 22.03.2022 Accepted: 22.03.2022 Published: 25.03.2023
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Derbent is Russia's oldest and geographically most southern city; it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2003. The paper considers the specific features of medieval urban Derbent planning and its architectural environment through the prism of philosophical categories - space, form, and content. Also the author points out on the process of forming ideological attitudes and meanings. The ideology as the vision of the world, transmitted through the architectural environment and aimed at the perception of the world, world-view and world-understanding, has influenced the socio-cultural space built by the citizens of the city for centuries. As a result, people perceive the architectural object in the urban space as a unity of proportionality, form, and harmony. The article describes architectural objects, their functional significance, and place in the socio-cultural space. The architectural environment of Derbent and the organisation of its urban space determined the lifestyle of the city dwellers for many centuries, and promoted the development of crafts and trade. For many centuries the continuity of the socio-cultural attitudes of the city dwellers determined the architectural aspect of the city, the traditions of public and civil construction. Indeed, processes both past and present form the concept of the Derbent city.
architectural environment, architectural object, urban space, form, attitude, contextual system, city philosophy
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