Architecture of the “Thaw” Period for Children ― Search for the Image and Typology Development

Student: Shumikhina Aleksandra

Educational Programme: History of Arts (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2020

In the last decades, a growing interest in the architecture of the Thaw period has emerged in the professional community. However, the development of architecture for children and its typologies (pioneer palaces and pioneer summer camps) has still not received proper coverage in the literature. This study offers a perspective on architecture for children as a micro-environment embedded in the surrounding park landscape, created to facilitate the socialization of children and to prepare the next generation of Soviet people for self-government. The paper aims to describe and analyze several monuments of new typologies of architecture for children of the Thaw period and to identify the features of their artistic and constructive solutions and their role in development of the concept of Soviet childhood.

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