Moscow Art Nouveau: When Architects Become Magicians

You will learn the basic principles of this style, which will then be embodied in the architecture of the avant-garde: design from the inside out, functional approach, work with new materials, synthesis of arts. We will search for the keys and decipher the symbols of Art Nouveau, this wonderful fusion of artistic imagination and rational thinking of architects. Let’s talk about the fate and work of the founders of Moscow Art Nouveau – Fedor Shekhtel and Lev Kekushev. You will get a lot of excitement from seeing beautiful buildings. Get acquainted with the distinctive features of Art Nouveau architecture, and in the future you can easily distinguish Art Nouveau from other architectural styles. And, of course, we will not ignore the fate of bright representatives of the Belle Epoch, who lived and worked in Moscow at the beginning of the XX century.