Интеллигенты в архитектуре, или Избранные места из переписки друзей
For thirty years of existence of the Ivanovo school of intellectual studies, it has been long been proved that the intelligentsia is a heterogeneous, multi-faceted, ambiguous phenomenon, but the activities, ideological and moral foundations of such representatives as architects have practically been not considered. An important role in filling this rather interesting gap, according to the author of the article, can be played by the book of M. I. Futlik “Bad Clausura, or the Pursuit of the Wind: in letters, poems and prose”, published in Perm in 2018. The author’s memoirs, from his student days in the 1950s to the present, carefully reproduced fragments of his correspondence with friends, provide a fairly broad and informative panorama of the life of “underdeveloped socialism” and “wild capitalism”, as friends call modern society, contain abundant information about the place in this society of intellectuals and intellectuals in general, and architecture and architects in particular. The book is considered as a valuable historical source, and criticism of the historical source is the main method of the historian's work. The opinion of the author of the article on many of the issues raised is no less individual and debatable than the content of the book itself.
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