Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Architecture: Heritage, Traditions and Innovations (AHTI 2020)

Architectural Image and Structural System: Two Churches of Ani in the Epoch of the Bagratids

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Armen Kazaryan
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Armen Kazaryan
Available Online 23 September 2020.
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10.2991/assehr.k.200923.018How to use a DOI?
Keywords
medieval architecture, creativity, interpretation, structural system, Armenia, Gagkashen, Church of Redeemer in Ani, Trdat the Architect, 10th–11th centuries
Abstract

Shaping of an architectural image and transformation of the structural system of building are usually studied separately. However, these two phenomena are connected in one way or another. On the sample of monuments of the site of Ani – the medieval capital of Armenia – the author traces an obvious interconnection of these two components of the creativity of architects of the tenth and eleventh centuries, including their new interpretation of Classic rotunda. Two churches are of special interest: St. Gregory the Illuminator called Gagkashen (about 1001) and the Church of Redeemer (1035); their structural systems are still not enough analyzed. Architectural compositions of these churches could be traced back to some structures of the Late Antiquity, but they were interpreted by architects of the epoch of the Bagratids in an original way. The author argues that transformations of the structural system were nor evolutionary ones, they were of different orientations which depended on specific tasks of providing safety of the architectural composition in question with its renewed imagery characteristics.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Architecture: Heritage, Traditions and Innovations (AHTI 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
23 September 2020
ISBN
978-94-6239-056-0
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200923.018How to use a DOI?
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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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