The article presents the history, principles of organization and operation of the Academy of St. Luke. The basic form of representation the works – projects at the Academy were drawings. Principles developed in the Academy had a significant impact on teaching in later architectural schools. The European architectural universities, regardless of their general profile – whether it was polytechnics or academies of fine arts –drawings were considered one of the main subjects of profiling education of an architect.
Drawing serves as a basic tool for recording and immortalizing the original visions of an architect. The architecture so presented is free from any restraints and may express fantasies and dreams of all sorts. Such acts can be referred to as playing with architecture. But is it only playing with architecture or does the imaginary, visionary paper architecture carry deeper meanings? The article presents selected motifs form Alexander Brodsky’s works.
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