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The academic study of the history and architectural heritage of German settlers, who established more then 20 settlements in Georgia –   carried out in 2015-2017years with the financial support of the National Agency for Cultural Heritage Protection of Georgia and  German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. First German colonists arrived in Georgia in 1817 and named […]

8-23-VI is a monochromatic pavilion designed for the residents of entrance VI, Block 23, in the 8th district of Gldani – a vast Soviet-built housing district in Tbilisi, Georgia. Commissioned as part of a collaboration with the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, 8-23-VI utilises the temporal format of the biennial to catalyse a permanent and public pavilion, […]

The new style established in Europe by the late 19th century went under various names in various nations: Art Nouveau, Jugendstil, Stile Liberty, Secession, Modernisme etc. In Georgia the style was called “Style Modern.” In 1901, seven years after the world’s first Art Nouveau building – Victor Horta’s Hotel Tassel – opened in Brussels, the […]

44th Nisshin Kogyo Architectural Design Competition: Architecture that bridges Description “Bridging” signifies, “connecting different places by drawing bridges”. Once the bridge is drawn over the river, the traffic of people and matter is born. Recently, we also call the connections among different networks bridging. In short, to bridge means to connect two things that previously […]

Nino Tchatchkhiani and Benjamin Wells talking about Benjamin’s project Tbilisi City Forum NT: Benjamin, you came to Tbilisi in 2016 with a group of students of Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. Why did you come to Tbilisi? BW: We came to Tbilisi because it is a city with a very particular set […]

Series_Georgian architects_George Chakhava “There is nothing more noble and elegant from an intellectual viewpoint than this: To resist through form.” Eladio Dieste, 1987 The purpose of this article is to present one of the inventions of the architect George Chakhava, namely, the use of elements of reinforced concrete as a building material for different kinds […]

The Industrial Heritage of Georgia – Chiatura-Zestaponi-Poti Industrial Circuit (Book Overview) Following the initiative of the National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation of Georgia an interesting publication named “Chiatura-Zestaponi-Poti Industrial Circuit” was published in 2015. This can be regarded as one of the initial steps taken towards the research of industrial heritage of Georgia in […]

Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, curator of 15th Architectural Biennale in Venice, depicted for this exhibition a picture of an old lady standing on the top of a ladder – this is German archaeologist Maria Reiche overlooking the South American Nazca desert on the photo taken by Bruce Chatwin. The view, she has from the top of […]

Rem Koolhaas’s book “SMLXL“ ends with the essay “Generic City”. This is an important work as his “Bigness” and “Junkspace”. “Generic City is not planned, it just happens”. “The past is too small to inhabit”. Narration about “Generic City” looks like a prediction and from todays point of view it partly came true.