"Houses of Moscow" online course for children 7-10 years old

For the closing period for visitors, the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture has prepared an informative online course for children 7-10 years old, which includes 4 lessons on the history of architecture. During the course, children will get acquainted with the houses in which Muscovites lived in different historical periods, learn how they were built and decorated, look inside and learn bizarre architectural terms. Course participants will socialize, dance and paper cut manor houses, mansions and chambers.

In the first lesson, children will get acquainted with the old Russian chambers, learn what a platband, curb, runner, tile is and how the chambers differ from the choir. In the second lesson, students will immerse themselves in the world of an urban estate and the classicism style. They will also get acquainted with such terms as columns with Corinthian capitals, rustic, enfilade, portico, front floor (mezzanine). The third session will focus on Art Nouveau and Ryabushinsky’s mansion, and participants will have to come up with their own wallpaper print and create a window frame project, inspired by reproductions of Shekhtel’s sketches. In the fourth lesson, children will learn about the avant-garde in architecture and the structure of the Melnikov House.

Teacher: Varvara Aleshina, art critic, teacher of the Children’s Center MUAR

Lesson program:

• Occupation December 6: Old Russian Chambers. How to understand that there are chambers in front of you? What is curb and runner? Why indoor vaults?
• Occupation December 13: Classicist manor. How not to get lost in a city manor? Why do you need a suite? Why were wooden houses in Moscow pretending to be stone?
• Lesson 20 December: Art Nouveau mansion. What is the peculiarity of the Art Nouveau style? How did Shekhtel create the Ryabushinsky mansion? Is it difficult to come up with a pattern for wallpaper?
• Session 4: An avant-garde residential building. How did the houses lose their decorations? Is residential architecture diverse? Why is Melnikov’s house made up of cylinders?

The cost of a subscription for four classes: 1600 rubles