Irene Zarinskaya

Former Short-Term Scholar

Professional Affiliation

Associate Professor, Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute

Wilson Center Project

Semi-Urban Culture in Russia: Structure and Environmental Realization

Project Summary

A study of marginal semi-urban/semi-rural cultural forms and their manifestations in the urban environment since 1980. Examines issues not only as a problem of Soviet culturology, but for the development of architecture and design, in a country whose neo-urbanites who have lost contact with rural life, but retained its stereotypes.