Wine through the Eyes of an Engineer in Yerevan. Wine Tasting and Lecture on Armenian Architecture

We present a series of lectures "Wine through the Eyes of an Engineer". Each lecture is a conversation about twentieth-century architecture using the example of one country and a tasting of local wines together with a professional sommelier.

Highlights:

• History of Armenian Soviet architecture from the 1920s to the 1980s

• Creative biographies of the main figures of Armenian modernism: Raphael Israelyan, Arthur Trakhanyan, and Jim Torosyan

• What is the national romanticism and how it evolved on the Armenian soil

• How could they succeed in constructing monuments to the Armenian Genocide in the 1960s in Armenia?

• How Jim Torosyan managed to fill the monument to the 50th anniversary of the Soviet power with religious and archaic symbolism

Included:

• "Wine through the Eyes of an Engineer" lecture.

• Tus Classic white dry bright, fresh, 100% lalvari from the north of Armenia from the Tavush region

• Tushpa classic white dry Ararat wine region, good minerality with acidity from the kindest family producer - Tushpa wine cellar

• Jraghatspanyan rose dry is the fourth generation of winemakers and the jewel of the winery is the Tigrani variety, with the unique bright aroma and wonderful bouquet

• Moukh red dry is a light, fresh red from the 100% endemic Areni grape variety.

• Qirs classic red dry is aggressive, bright and brutal Lilac. Wines from Artsakh, a unique terroir wine-making region.

• Snacks

Please note: ages 18+.

Among all the republics of the Soviet Union, Armenia seems to have managed to create the most powerful and distinctive school of architecture. We will talk about how it was formed in the first half of the XX century, but most of all we will focus on the Armenian modernism, that is, the architecture of 196-1980. We will talk about the main trends, names and buildings of this outstanding period.