The current generation of young architects formulates its own aesthetics, but more importantly its own approach in initiating a project rather than getting a client. This phenomenon of self-initiated projects can be seen as an opposition towards the dominant regime of the developer’s policy on the architectural market and impossibility of young architects to withstand. This kind of architecture is raw, temporal, often vernacular. However, it is a highly important issue since it addresses the paradigm of the role of an architect as a service provider vs self-initiated projects. Unlike the general image of bottom-up projects, those examples introduce a specific architectural language and genuine agendas. This language carries the regionalism of Russian suburb and abundance of the urban context. It is reflected in small bureaus of young practitioners, self-organized movements by students and education process in MARCH, the only independent architectural school in Russia.
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