Kintsurashvili biography

Contacts Advertising The Composition of the Creative Dynasty Kintsurashvili: Architecture of Space, Architecture of Life ... The surname Kintsurashvili in Gatchina is familiar to many. And the embodied architectural projects of the head of this family - Yuri Kintsurashvili - saw, without a doubt, everything. His monuments to the first Russian military airfield and a submarine of the Dzhevetsky near the Baltic Station have long become the pride of Gatchina.

Daughter Anna followed in the footsteps of her parents, successfully graduating from the Faculty of Architecture of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts named after Three artists-architects in the family, each of whom is a bright personality, is a creative dynasty in which the knowledge, skills and instincts of the artist are passed down from generation to generation, closely interweaving and creating an amazing atmosphere of creative search and inspiration.

The Leningrad Academy of Arts was once an alma mater for each of them, and yet, as it happens most often, it all started and laid much earlier. Yuri Shotavich Kintsurashvili is from the city of Okamchir Abkhazia. However, the son did not go in their "medical" footsteps. Like many children in Soviet, and our times, Yuri Shotavich learned to draw in an art circle. And it just so happened that a neighbor-architect saw his work, advising the boy to go to study in Leningrad, where there was a secondary art school at the Academy of Arts.

After graduating from the fifth grade, the boy went to conquer his first, very serious peak. Successfully withstood the entrance exams at a large competition, entered the picturesque class. True, he did not become a painter - a year before the end of the art school, he suddenly decided to go to the architectural class, and then entered the architectural faculty of the Academy.

After graduating from the Academy of Arts, Yuri Shotavich worked in large design institutes of Leningrad, such as Lenniy Project, I am a workshop, at the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute named after Herzen and others. Now Yuri Kintsurashvili is mainly engaged in architectural activities - from large forms to landscape design. Among his Gatchinsk projects are not only two already mentioned structures and a monument to the first certified Russian pilot Efimov at the entrance to the Arz, his “pencil” belongs to the projects of a new corner building at the intersection of Chkalov and Leonov streets, a shopping center on the ul.

Uritsky, 21, interiors of the Museum of the History of the First Russian Military Aerodrome. According to the project of Kintsurashvili and sculptor Yu. Kuznetsov, an unusual memorial complex “Stroganov Bridge” in Siversky was built - a torn wall and the Orthodox cross - for eternal memory to the victims of the Great Patriotic War. Also, on his project, the building of the tennis center is being built on the street.

General Knysh. The picturesque base received in the art school, of course, has not gone anywhere - despite the successes in his main profession of the architect, Yuri Shotavich is still engaged in painting. Actively participates in various exhibitions in Gatchina, St. Petersburg and other cities of Russia and abroad. In addition to the profession, the Academy of Arts gave Yuri Shotavich another valuable “acquisition” - acquaintance with the future wife Olga Vladimirovna, who also studied at the faculty of architecture.

The path to the architecture for Olga Sokolova was more direct and predetermined: mother is a builder by profession, father is an artist. This happened in Cherepovets, where the father and mother met, who came to this city from Leningrad in distribution. I literally grew up in the theater ...

She realized early that she wanted to be an architect. She entered the Leningrad Academy of Arts, graduating from it with a degree in architect-artist. True, we managed to launch only one complex - newspaper. Perestroika began, our team broke up, and I went on maternity leave ... Kintsurashvili's family at that time already settled in Gatchina, where grandfather Olga Sokolova lived after the war.

Having left the decree, Olga Vladimirovna got a job in the Gatchinsky fashion Lyceum - I did not want to leave a little daughter for a long time. This decision predetermined another serious turn in the profession - Olga Vladimirovna became a teacher, and for more than twenty years he has been teaching the design and graphics of the young Gatchina fashion designers. When asked what is the most important in her work, it answers simply: “The main thing is to reveal the potential of the student.

If this succeeds, then the goal is achieved. ” The result of activity is good only when both work. If we talk about the results, then they are really obvious. Collections, which are created by the joint efforts of teachers and students of the Faculty of Technology, GIEFPT, receive high grades at contests of various levels - from local and regional to international. The Russian competition “Breath of Spring”, an open competition of fashion designers “Golden thread”, international “Admiralty needle” and “Exrasis”, a competition of young designers “Generation Next”, participation of students' thesis in the international exhibition “Fashion Industry” - and this is far from all!And this somewhat reminiscent of the work of an architect who does not make sense without a coordinated team.

But the similarity between model art and architecture does not end there, because both of both types of creativity are based on inspiration, imagination, a sense of style, rhythm and inner harmony. Olga Vladimirovna shows the watercolor drawings of her students. The birth of amazing images is sequentially captured on them, it is clear how almost still children's hands are confidently groping for the path from reality to amazing fiction.

In the initial pictures - flowers: orchids, callas, poppies, irises, thistle ... In the end - amazing, sometimes very exquisite costumes. Continuous movement, search, development - properties inherent not only to the professions of the artist, architect or designer. This is also an integral quality of youth. The creative family of Kintsurashvili, undoubtedly, is undoubtedly believes in his most important “project”.

Anya first studied at the piano class in the music school, sang in the choir near the vegetables. She graduated from the music school successfully, continuing to make music after the ninth grade. And in the eleventh grade, we took our daughter to St. Petersburg, to the Academy of Arts-on the open day, see how students are doing, show her an atmosphere of classes.

Anya saw all this and said: “I want to study only here! During this time, she mastered the drawing, painting, composition, eventually receiving a very high level of training. Two years later, she, like us once, entered the architectural faculty of the Academy of Arts. I think this is only her merit ... In September, the joint exhibition of architectural graphics of Yuri and Anna Kintsurashvili was opened in the cultural and exhibition space "Vesna" of the Gatchina Center for Information Technology.

The main concept of the exhibition was the visualization of the process of birth of architectural objects from the idea and image to the incarnation in the real space of the city. Some of the educational projects of Anna, mock -ups of museums, residential quarters and artillery facilities, drawings and sketches were also presented as “exhibits”. Clausura short -term sketches on a given topic, performed by the Chinese mascara of the graphics, the grand diploma project of the defense museum and blockade of Leningrad - each of these works spoke of the courage and thoughtfulness of the young architect, who is not afraid to take on the most complex and deep topics.

Then, at the exhibition, Anna admitted that architecture for her is, first of all, love for the world around him, for nature, for people: “A real architect draws inspiration from nature. Architecture is what is created for people, it is the environment that brings them up. Therefore, the architect must experience a sense of responsibility for the appearance and content of this environment.

And for this it is necessary that he be a morally pure person ... ” - of course, we are proud of our child,” says Olga Vladimirovna. She leafs through the album-portfolio of Anna Kintsurashvili. Educational work, projects, clausers ... Participation and victory in prestigious competitions of young architects ... But the matter, of course, is not only in competitions. Now works in an architectural workshop, creates projects of residential buildings that go immediately for construction.

And the farther, the more interesting it is ... If we talk about family traditions that have been developing for years, then Kintsurashvili family members receive special pleasure from joint travels to different cities and countries. He chooses places interesting from the point of view of architecture, art. Of course, this is a common atmosphere, common interests, constant talk about art, architecture, exhibitions, and profession in general.

So we always had. We go to exhibitions with Anya, to the theater, the conservatory since childhood - she was always interested. Anya is a full -fledged participant in our family life, nothing is discussed without her - creative or any other issues.