Armenian Modernism Day, Yerevan

We will see the most striking works of Armenian modernism during a bus tour, have lunch in the style of Soviet Armenian cuisine and go on a tour of the Tarkhanyan Center with a glass of mulled wine.

Highlights:

• We will begin with a 3-hour bus tour of Armenian modernist architecture

• Lunch at the Tarkhanyan Center with Arthur Tarkhanyan's (one of the major architects of the era) favorite dishes according to his wife's recipes

• A welcome glass of mulled wine for each guest.

• Anahit, daughter of Tarkhanyan, will give us a tour of the museum she has created in honor of her father.

• Examples of pioneer forms in the works of Arthur Tarkhanyan: "Russia" Cinema, "Yeghern" Memorial and the "Amalir" Sports and Concert Complex

• Careful work with tradition and a harbinger of postmodernism in the works of Jim Torosyan: "Cascade" architectural-monumental complex, the memorial to the 50th anniversary of Soviet Armenia and the Yerevan City Hall

• Motives of national architecture in the building of the National Polytechnic University

• How to learn to understand modernism, brutalism and postmodernism and decipher their meanings

• Where did modernist architecture come from and how did it develop in Armenia?

• Key authors of Armenian modernism

Included:

• Architectural Guide

• Transfer

• Lunch

Although Armenian architecture is more than one thousand years old, one of its most striking periods is modernism, i.e. the architecture of the 1960s-1980s. Many works by Armenian architects have become classics not only of Soviet, but also of world architecture, such as the Zvartnots Airport or the Cascade architectural-monumental complex.