Maxim Atayants

Maxim Atayants
Maxim Atayants Maxim Atayants
Born	(1966-10-01) October 1, 1966 Ryazan, Russia
🏳️ Nationality	Russian
🎓 Alma mater	Russian Academy of Fine Arts, Architectural Department
💼 Occupation	Architect
🏅 Awards	Premio Europeo Cap Circeo, 2018 International Urban Design Award

Maxim Atayants ( Rus. Максим Борисович Атаянц, Arm. Մաքսիմ Բորիսի Աթայանց, Born 1 October 1966, Ryazan) — Russian architect and artist, professor of History of architecture and Architectural design

Biography

Maxim Atayants born October 1, 1966 in the town of Ryazan located 180 km from Moscow into the family of a radio engineer with Armenian roots. Maxim Atayants’ paternal ancestors come from the village of Karaglukh in the Hadrut Province of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) where at the turn of the 18th century the founder of the family built a church dedicated to St. Mary.

In 1984 he moved to St. Petersburg and entered the Russian Academy of Fine Arts (Architectural department) from which he graduated in 1995. His graduation thesis was «The Project of Design of the Navy Museum in Kronshtadt » . It was the first time in more than 30 years that a graduation project has been completed in a classical aesthetics and caused fierce discussion. In 1996 this project was shown at the Vision of Europe exhibition (Bologna) and was published in its catalogue.[1] In 1995 Atayants studied at Prince Charles' Summer Architectural School (Italy - France)) organized by The Prince's Foundation for Building Community. In 1996 he joined the St. Petersburg department of Union of Architects of Russia. At the end of the 1990s Maxim Atayants developed numerous projects of private houses and private as well as corporate interiors. From 1998 to 2000 he was teaching at the Sapienza University of Rome and Roma department of Notre Dame School of Architecture

In 2000 he set up his personal studio -- Maxim Atayants Architects (MAA) – specialized in large urbanistic projects.

Since 1995 he has been studying monuments of Ancient Greek and Roman architecture that survived until modern times. In 2004-2010 he was travelling through Middle East and Northern Africa, inspecting remaining architectural heritage of the Roman Empire.

Maxim Atayants is regarded as a partisan of neoclassicism. This architectural school proclaims that the design of modern buildings could and should be created using the order system and other expressive means of classical architecture. Many prominent architects, such as Robert A. M. Stern, Gabriele Tagliaventi, Robert Adam, Pier Carlo Bontempi are among the followers of the same philosophy.

Main works

Graphics

As a graphic artist Atayants created many works, most by drawing pen or/and paintbrush, of architectural landscapes that portray:

- Armenian architecture

- Ancient Greece and Rome

- St. Petersburg

Some drawings are also interesting as documentary materials as they depict monuments which are lost now - such as buildings of an ancient Palmyra which were ruined recently.

Atayants' works are now included in collections of Shchusev Museum of Architecture (Moscow), Museum for Architectural Drawing (Berlin), Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow), Notre Dame School of Architecture, TASIS The American School Lugano

Private villa in Ticino, Switzerland. Fresco by Maxim Atayants

Beauty parlour «Caligula»- St. Peterburg --fresco by Atayants

Architecture and urbanism

Selected projects

• St. John the Baptist church(Սուրբ Հովհաննես Մկրտիչ, Surb Hovanes Mkrtych) in Nagorno-Karabakh (2013) — built
• Ethnographic park «Moya Rossia» («My Russia») in Sochi (2014) — built
• Mountain resort «Gorky Gorod» in Sochi (2014) — built

Mountain resort «Gorky Gorod» in Sochi (2014)

Ethnographic park «Moya Rossia»

St. Spirit Cathedral in St. Petersburg. Project

Urbanism

• Residential district «Ivakino-Pokrovskoye» (Moscow region).
• Residential district «Gorod Naberezhnikh» (Moscow region).

Residential district «Ivakino-Pokrovskoye»

Residential district «Gorod Naberezhnikh» (Moscow region)

Restoration & Renovation

• Novo-Tikhvinsky convent and St. Alexander Nevsky cathedral in Ekaterinburg. Reestablishment of initial architectural form.

Selected Architectural Competitions

• Buildings of Supreme Court of Russian Federation in St Petersburg (2014) -- competition held by Administration of President of Russian Federation -- winner, project was formally approved but rejected in fact.

Educator

• Joint summer school in St. Petersburg of Russian Academy of Fine Arts (Architectural department) and Notre Dame School of Architecture, (1996).
• Sapienza Universita di Roma. Architectural department. Consultations of graduation theses, (1997—1998).
• Notre Dame School of Architecture Rome department. Guest lecturer at the seminar given by professor Ettore Maria Mazzola and consultant of graduation theses. (From 1997 till now).
• Russian Academy of Fine Arts (Architectural department) (From 2000 till now.)
• Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design Departments of Artistic Metal and Glass and Ceramics. The member of State Attestation Commission. (From 2009 till now.)

Exhibitions

Architectural

• «Vision of Europe», (Bologna, 1996) — graduation thesis «The Project of Design of the Navy Museum in Kronshtadt» [2]

• III Moscow Biennale of Architecture, exhibition «Tendencies. Historicism» (2012) — inspirer and organizer of the joint exhibition of 7 Russian and 7 foreign architects of neoclassical school.

Artistic

• «Nothing but Italy! Architectural graphics XVIII—XXI centuries», Moscow (2014) -- The State Tretyakov Gallery, — 8 graphic works

• «Roman Time. Graphics of Maxim Atayants», Moscow (2016) -- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

• «Inspired by Greece», St.Petersburg (2016) -- Russian Academy of Fine Arts

Awards

• Awarded with honorary title of Merited Architect of Russia (3 may 2018).

• 2018 International Urban Design Award — or his outstanding designs for New Classical Urban Neighborhoods in Moscow, and Sochi Ski Village.

• 2016 Premio Europeo Cap Circeo Category: «Architecture and Art» — For artistic and architectural artefacts based on canons of Ancient Roman culture.

Recovery of the village of Karaglukh

In early 1991, the village of Karaglukh was destroyed in the military Ring operation. The village cemetery was defiled and defaced, and the memorial spring dedicated to the village residents who died in the WW2 (which was established and financed in the 1950s by the local residents) was also destroyed. All the buildings and the village infrastructure were in ruins, the village was abandoned.

In 2011 Maxim Atayants visited Karaglukh with his family and decided to build a church next to the village and dedicate his efforts and financial means to rebuilding the whole village. By 2018 the following milestones were achieved: John the Baptist church based on Maxim Atayants’ design was built and consecrated, the St. Mary church, erected by Maxim Atayants’ ancestor, was restored and also consecrated. The memorial spring was re-introduced. Water and electricity supply to the village was established. Three residential buildings were built, while two other residential buildings are under construction – all these buildings were designed after an idea of Maxim Atayants, based on traditional format and traditional materials, in order not to spoil the amenity of the place and its tourist appeal.

In addition to that, an agricultural processing plant is being built that will source produce from local farmers.

Village of Karaglukh in the Hadrut Province of Nagorno-Karabakh. John the Baptist church

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