GEGEN DIE WAND. Urban activism and cultural heritage
February 3, 2024Residential and public complexes. Sofia
February 3, 2024Research Project
Synthesis of Art and Architecture. Dimitrovgrad
Location
Dimitrovgrad
Completed
2023
Team
Emilia Kaleva,
Aneta Vasileva,
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva,
Iva Hasamska
Partners
The project includes research, analysis and heritage protection argumentation for listing as cultural heritage of the public art synthesis with architecture in the town of Dimitrovgrad.
The study covers 17 pieces of the decorative arts in Dimitrovgrad, which include decorative murals in concrete and ceramics, mosaics and sgrafitti by Atanas Yaranov, Stefan Gatsev, Georgi Bogdanov, Dimo Zaimov, Mihalis Garudis, Kolyo Getsov, Krasimir Dzhidrov, Petko Churchuliev and others. These are located on the blank gable walls of blocks of flats, on the facades of several public buildings and industrial premises, on the Rotunda to the building of Dimitrovgrad Municipality, on the Mladost sports hall and they illustrate the holistic integration of synthesis of architecture with the other arts, which was so characteristic of the postwar era. This is the first project in Bulgaria taking a whole city-wide approach to analyse and list synthesis of arts and architecture as a series of group pieces of cultural heritage.
Consultants: Natalia Hristova PhD, Assoc. Prof., Chavdar Popov, PhD, Prof.