Atayants, Maxim Borisovich

Maxim Borisovich Atayants was born on October 1, 1966 in Ryazan in the family of a radiolocation specialist B.A. Atayants . My uncle is an aircraft designer S. A. Atayants .

In 1984 he entered and in 1995 graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts . In 1985−1986 he served in the Soviet Army.

Thesis - “Project of the Museum of the Navy in Kronstadt ” was the first graduation project in the faculty in the classical style in 30 years, and caused serious discussion during the defense. In 1996, this project participated in the exhibition Vision of Europe ( Bologna ), was published in its catalog.

In 1995, Maxim Atayants was trained at the Prince Charles Summer School of Architecture (Italy - France).

Since 1995, a member of the St. Petersburg branch of the Union of Architects of Russia .

In the late 1990s, he developed designs for private homes, private and corporate interiors.

In 1998 - 2000 he taught at the University of Rome Sapienza and in the Roman department of the University of Notre Dame .

In 2000, to carry out major urban development projects, he organized the "Maxim Atayants Architectural Studio" (AMMA).

In December 2006, he began working with the Urban Group, winning the company's internal competition to develop the concept of its first project in Ivanovo-Pokrovsky ^[1] . At the beginning of 2018, the Urban Group went bankrupt; at the end of August 2018, the results of the audit of the Urban Group conducted by EY , SRG and NEO Center were published on the website of the Fund for the Protection of Rights of Interest holders (House of the Russian Federation). In the report, Atayants, together with Alexander Dolgin and Andrey Puchkov, was called the founder of the group ^[2] . Despite the legal voidness of the term “founder”, Atayants refutes what was said in the audit report, stating that “he was never among the founders and founders of the Urban-Group and was in no way affiliated with it ... never worked inside the company, including and as the chief architect of the project. Between me as an individual entrepreneur and my workshop on the one hand, and the Urban Group on the other, there has always been a contractor and customer relationship. Another kind of relationship for an architect with a name and a developer is death ” ^{[1] [3]} . On September 12, 2018, the general director of Dom.RF Alexander Plutnik said about Atayants’s affiliation with the Urban Group: “We do not confirm it yet. I read his comment. We asked the auditors to clarify this, we will return with the WEF and will find out ” ^[4] . At the end of October 2018, Dom.RF and EY withdrew their claims against Atayants, confirming the correctness of his position and allowing further cooperation with the architect in the process of completing the facilities of the Urban Group. ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

As part of the study of preserved monuments of ancient architecture, begun in 1995, between 2004 and 2010 he traveled extensively in the Middle East and North Africa , exploring the architectural heritage of the Roman Empire .

As an architect, Atayants belongs to the direction of so-called neoclassicism , which rejects the modernist paradigm that has dominated world architecture since the beginning of the 20th century. Neoclassicist architects are convinced that modern architecture for various purposes can use the language of architectural classics dating back to antiquity up to the use of an order system and other techniques. At the same time, the created architectural structures will not be imitations of the buildings of the past or their copies, but the result of understanding and developing classical principles into the present. ^[9] Recognizing the individual creative successes and talents of modernist architects, neoclassicists criticize modernist architecture for its tendency to degenerate into anti-human and anti-aesthetic functionalism, as well as for a destructive approach to historical development. In addition to M. Atayants, neoclassicists include architects such as M. Filippov , M. Belov , D. Barkhin , Mikhail Tumarkin, Ilya Utkin , Peter Zavadovsky, Jose Cornelio da Silva , Pierre Carlo Bontempi , Ettore Maria Mazzola , Robert Stern , Robert Adam , Leon Crie, Quinlan Terry, Gabriele Tagliaventi .

Maxim Atayants married, father of two sons.

Graphics

As a graphic artist, M. Atayants is the author of a large number of works, performed mainly in the technique of drawing with a pen and brush. The genre of works is architectural landscapes, thematically covering:

• Petersburg
• Armenian architecture
• Antique architecture.

Graphic sheets depict architectural monuments as they are today, surrounded by a modern urban environment. Most often, the drawings were made by the author from nature and finalized from memory. Large-format sheets were created using field sketches and photographs taken during travel. Some of them contain fairly lengthy inscriptions that fix instant author’s reflection on the image.

Of particular documentary value are the drawings depicting the monuments of ancient Palmyra and other architectural objects of the Middle East, lost in recent years.

The work of Atayants is stored in the collections of the Pushkin Museum to them. Pushkin , Museum of Architectural Figure (Berlin) , Museum of Architecture. Shchusev , American School of TASIS in Lugano (Switzerland) , Faculty of Architecture, University of Notre Dame .

Monumental murals

• The corporate restaurant hall of the Progress-Neva office on 79A Moskovsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg (1999) was lost during the reconstruction of the premises in 2017.
• The ceiling and wall painting as part of the author's interior of the Caligula cosmetic salon on 3rd Sovetskaya St. in St. Petersburg (2001) - lost during the reconstruction of the premises.
• Private villa in the canton of Ticino (2002-2003)

Some projects

• Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in St. Petersburg (2012--) - under construction
• Church of St. Helena in the village of Shelkovo , Volosovsky District, Leningrad Region (2012) - built
• Church of St. John the Baptist (Սուրբ Հովհաննես Մկրտիչ, Surb Hovhannes Mkrtich) in Nagorno-Karabakh (2013) ^[10] - built
• Cultural and Ethnographic Park "My Russia" in Sochi (2014) - built
• Mountain resort " Gorki Gorod " in Sochi (2014) ^[11] - built

Housing estates

• Residential complex "Opaliha O ₂ " ^[12] (Moscow region, Krasnogorsk).
• The Ivakino-Pokrovskoye quarter ^[13] (Moscow region, Khimki).
• Residential complex "Opaliha O ₃ " ^[14] (Moscow region, Krasnogorsk).
• Residential complex "Mitino O ₂ " ^[15] (Moscow region, village Saburovo).
• Residential complex "Prominent city" ^[16] (Moscow region).
• Residential complex "Novoshodnensky" ^[17] (Moscow region).
• Residential complex "City of embankments" ^[18] (Moscow region).
• Residential complex "Solar system" ^[12] (Moscow region, Khimki).
• Residential complex "Pyatnitsky quarters" (Moscow region)
• Residential complex "Laikovo" ^[19]
• Residential complex "Forest" ^[20]
• Residential complex "Dynasty" (Yaroslavl, historical center)

Reconstruction and restoration

• Novo-Tikhvin Monastery and the Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky in Yekaterinburg. Restoration of the original architectural appearance and extension of the portico.

Participation in architectural competitions

• Residential building on Kronverksky pr. In St. Petersburg (1997) - victory, the house was built with significant deviations from the project
• The state competition of the architectural concept for the construction of the complex of buildings of the Supreme and Supreme Arbitration Courts of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg (2014) - victory, nominal adoption of the project as the basis, actual rejection of the project by the customer ^[21] .
• Memorial Temple for the 100th anniversary of the 1915 genocide in Yerevan (2015) - participation

• Joint summer school in St. Petersburg of the Academy of Arts and the University of Notre Dame , 1996.
• Sapienza Universita di Roma . Architecture faculty. Rome. Consultations on graduation projects, 1997-1998.
• University of Notre Dame , Roman branch. Guest lecturer and consultations on graduation projects. From 1997 to the present.
• The Faculty of Architecture of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts , from 2000 to the present. Courses:

- warrant in architecture;

- The history of the architecture of the Ancient World and classical antiquity;

- architectural design.

• Art and Industry Academy named after A. L. Stieglitz . Department of metal and ceramics. Member of the State Certification Commission. From 2009 to the present.

Architectural

• Vision of Europe, Bologna (1996) - graduation project of the Museum of the Navy in Kronstadt [1]
• “Sacred space - traditional church architecture today”, Rome (1999) - projects of temple buildings
• “Classical architecture today”, Lugano (1999) - projects
• III Moscow Biennale of Architecture, exhibition "Trends: historicism, simplicity, complexity" (2012) - the inspirer and organizer of the joint exhibition of 7 Russian and 7 foreign neoclassicists.

Artistic

• “The Last Drawings of the Century”, St. Petersburg (2000) - participant of the exhibition organized by the St. Petersburg Union of Artists
• “Architectural Monuments of the Italian Part of Switzerland”, Lugano (2000) - personal exhibition of drawings under the auspices of TASIS
• PAX ROMANA (Roman world) State Museum of Architecture named after A. V. Schusev , Moscow (2008) - 40 drawings and 150 photographs ^[22]
• “Only Italy! Architectural Graphics of the 18th — 21st Centuries »The State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow (2014) - 8 graphic works ^[23]
• “Roman time. Graphics by Maxim Atayants ”(2016) State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin , Moscow ^[24]
• “Inspired by Greece” (2016) Academy of Arts , St. Petersburg ^[25]
• “Thirst for Antiquity” (2018) Academy of Arts , St. Petersburg ^[26]

• Lectures in the framework of the educational project "School of Heritage" (2017) ^[27]
• Lectures in the framework of the educational project "Eshkolot" (2016) ^[28]
• Open lectures at the European University in St. Petersburg (2013—2017) ^{[29] [30] [31] [32] [33]}
• Lectures in the "Let me know" program of the television and radio company Mir Belogorya ^[34] (2015)
• Lectures in the Bolshoi Theater Tovstonogov's “Age of Enlightenment” ^[35] (2016)

• Honored Architect of the Russian Federation (May 3, 2018) - for merits in the field of architecture and many years of conscientious work ^[36] .
• Winner of the 2018 International Urban Design Award for outstanding projects of neoclassical suburbs in Moscow and Sochi .
• Laureate of the XXXV European International Prize “Cape of Circe” in the nomination “Architecture and Art” for paintings and architectural works created in the canons of ancient Roman culture . (2016)
• Award "The best implemented project for the integrated development of the territory" of the Second annual urban planning competition of the Ministry of Construction of Russia - 2016 for the residential complex "Opaliha-O2"
• Winner of the international European Property Awards - 2016, nomination: "The best residential complexes in Russia" - LCD "Mitino 02"
• Laureate of the international European Property Awards - 2016, nomination: “The best residential complexes in Russia” - LCD “Opaliha 03”,
• Laureate of the architectural competition “The Best Innovative Project of Russia” -2015 in the nomination “Integrated development of the territory: infrastructure, improvement” - LCD “Solar System”,
• Winner of the Architectural Prize of the Governor of the Moscow Region in 2014 - the project "City of Embankments"
• Winner of the international European Property Awards 2014 in the category of the best residential high-rise complex in Russia and Europe - LCD "Solar System"
• Laureate of the Russian Real Estate Award Urban Awards 2012 in the nominations: “The Best Residential Complex of Moscow Region in Economy Class”, “Innovation of the Year”, “The Best Complex Development Project” - LCD project “City of Embankments”

• “Architecture is revengeful and non-ironic” - interview of M. Atayants to the online publication “Gefter”
• Contemporary classics, M. Atayants
• Interview with Kapitel magazine, M. Atayants talks about his projects of residential complexes
• Interview with Sochi Architecture magazine, M. Atayants talks about the Gorki Gorod project
• RBC Interview on the Judicial Quarter project and views on mass housing .
• Noname architecture: can cheap housing be beautiful. RBC Interview:
• Architect Maxim Atayants - on New Holland as an ideal urban garden / Interview to The Village