Vladimir Belogolovsky – författare

In this invaluable and thought-provoking book, Vladimir Belogolovsky reflects on nearly 20 years of conversations with leading creatives from around the world whose focus is on art, photography, architecture, design, critical theory, and more. His intimate dialogues are with prolific visionaries, the likes of Paul Andreu, Aaron Betsky, Tatiana Bilbao, Christo, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Toyo Ito, Glenn Murcutt, Renzo Piano, Moshe Safdie, Ric Scofido, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, Michael Sorkin, Stanley Tigerman, Bernard Tschumi, Lin Utzon, Massimo Vignelli, Madelon Vriesendorp, and so many others. He exposes the complexity of their thought processes, while comparing and contrasting them to one another to distill more than 101 ideas. His engaging narrative captures the stories behind every project and every personality while exploring many important questions, including what makes a building architecture? How would a Futurist solve problems vs those whose focus is on nostalgia? The selection of interviews gathers many answers and intentions, but inevitably, also many more questions. Imagine Buildings Floating Like Clouds represents a diverse group of multitalented, creative people who work in disparate places culturally and climatically and came of age in very different times—from the revolutionary 1960s to our own time, when the future, for many, is being more feared than desired.

This lavishly photographed monograph, Mountain to Coast, showcases 20 magnificent residences designed by the renowned American firm Kelly|Stone Architects. These pages feature stunning scenic retreats that are crafted for discerning clients who also want respite from life’s daily stresses or have a legacy home that will be passed down for generations. Set amid beautiful mountain landscapes and coastal climates from across California, Colorado, and Nevada in the south, Canada in the north, and all the way to the beaches of Hawaii in the Pacific, these award-winning homes are bespoke, timeless in character, and innovative in the way they reflect the unique lifestyles, stylistic preferences, and aspirations of the people who inhabit them. The firm’s residential architecture and interior designs focus on being sustainable and minimising environmental impact by prioritising energy efficiency, integrating responsible materials, and advancing building science, as well as creating beautiful custom spaces that honour the sites, landscapes, and climates where the houses reside. Mountain to Coast reveals how Kelly|Stone Architects deftly weaves creativity with reality.

Since the mid-1990s, when China allowed its architects to practice independently from government-run design institutes, a new kind of architecture, distinguished by unique regional characteristics, has emerged. China Dialogues is a rigorously selected collection of insightful interviews that the book’s author Vladimir Belogolovsky has conducted with 21 leading Chinese architects during his extensive travels in China. At the time when so many buildings that are being built around the world are no longer rooted in their place and culture, the leading Chinese architects succeeded collectively in producing unique architectural body of work that could not be confused with any other regional school. The interviews are accompanied by over 120 photographs and drawings of beautifully executed projects built throughout China since early 2000s. China Dialogues opens up the thinking process of the country’s top architects, as they share their ideas, insights, intentions, and visions in unusually revealing and candid ways.

Sergei Tchoban: Architectural Drawings opens a window into the work of a draftsman-architect who treats drawing as a diary, a philosophical instrument, and a dialogue. Through sustained, analytical, and fantastical renderings, Tchoban explores the interplay of history and modernity, reality and imagination, and the balance between preservation and daring transformation. His urban mise-en-scènes reveal the relationships between the iconic and the background, the unique and the ordinary, the man-made and the natural, while tracing spaces that remain open-ended and evocative. He envisions architectural sections impossible to cut, reconstructs buildings from memory, and reflects on continuity, proportion, harmony, and the spirit of place. From the historic streets of his native Saint Petersburg to layered visions of Berlin, deconstructed monuments of ancient Egypt, and submerged towns along the heroic Volga-Don Canal, Tchoban reimagines vanished cultures, envisions audacious architectural undertakings, and honours the poetry of ruin. Rich in contrast, scale, perspective, and drawing techniques, his works guide exploration of real and imagined environments, offering a meditation on how history, architecture, and imagination shape the urban world—and the fragile, enduring beauty of a city in perpetual transformation.

Some architects regard a visit to Chicago as equal in importance to a pilgrimage to Rome or Athens: The soaring American metropolis at the shores of Lake Michigan has amassed an unmatched collection of first-rate buildings in every possible style since late nineteenth-century industrialization. This book looks at Chicago through the prism of Post-Modernism — under the premise that this style did not cease to exist sometime in the 1990s, but is, in fact, still with us today.Starting with the 1978 Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, curator and critic Vladimir Belogolovsky presents 100 structures, most of which were created after the turn of the millennium. These lavishly illustrated building descriptions are supplemented by introductory essays and interviews with Chicago architects, including Stanley Tigerman, Helmut Jahn and Jeanne Gang.