Postbrutalism and postmodernism in the architecture of Irkutsk in the 1990s and 2010s.

This article is devoted to the consideration of the most significant objects of the post-Soviet period in Irkutsk. The purpose of the study is to identify their stylistic features and basic shaping techniques. The work carried out included updating a number of bibliographic sources aimed at the professional audience of the region, field surveys with photographs of key facilities in 1990-2010, and direct communication with the authors of the buildings under study. The multidimensional nature of the designated period leads to a consistent and equivalent study of the planning and sculptural-artistic component. Based on the results of the research, the article presents a part of the collected photographic database and a table with a brief description of the details that most clearly form the figurative identity of the modern architecture of the city. By systematizing the found materials, the author attempts to provide a scientific description of the cultural significance and role of postmodern trends in the modern architectural process of the city, both from the practical design perspective and in the context of the educational process of the historically established school of Siberian architects. All this made it possible to prove that at the turning point of the epochs Irkutsk architects managed, while preserving the rich heritage of the Brutalists and their relevant experience, to meet the challenges of modernity with a humane, rational and artistic addition to this fund. Moreover, Irkutsk post-brutalism, which has not changed the principles of appeal to man and the human scale, has become a concrete, flattened example of willpower and creative perseverance for the second quarter of the century, which has become increasingly complicated in economic factors and the resulting overurbanization.