From a discussion amongst Ukrainian participants on May 7, 2009:
AZ: When I returned to Kyiv, I wanted to warn architects/builders about gentrification.
SB: They [Berliners/Germans] are fighting all this power/money from a much more comfortable, stable position than us. Their economy, legal system is in place; their urban space is humanistic, heterogeneous. “All in all, to any Kyivan, it[Berlin]’s paradise.”
LB: I disagree, I missed Kyiv.
LN: After returning from Leipzig, Ukraine woke me up, as if I had fallen asleep.


My work “The Courtyard” is built on combination of the documentary observation (video, notes) after an own yard with poeticizing of everyday experience in the sketch drawing which has a form of the personal diary.
The world outlook of modern architects’ majority is based on opinion, expressed by Louise Henry Sullivan in his book “Kindergarten Chats”. According to it “everything looks like what it is, and vice versa, everything is what it looks like.” This thesis is fundamental in context of gnosiology. It gives the evidence that architects follow speculative concept of cognition. Our project is impossible in the network of that concept.
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