To contemporary art exhibitions at the Hermitage the Youth Educational Center prepares round tables with the participation of leading experts and directors of world museums, meetings with artists and curators, cycles of lectures.

Educational program for the exhibit entitled
“Santiago Calatrava. In search of motion”
June 27th 2012 – September 30th 2012

June 2012

• June 25th – Alexei Lepork. “Calatrava. Charted beauty.”

An open lecture for the youth of the city, the employees of the Hermitage, and the guests of the Youth Centre.
The Lecture Hall of the Youth Centre, General Staff Building. Entry via Bolshaya Morskaya Street.
Registration by telephone at 495-71-30 other than Sundays and Mondays.
Beginning at 18:00

• June 28th – A presentation by architect Santiago Calatrava (Spain)

The Hermitage Theatre
Registration by telephone at 495-71-30 except for Sundays and Mondays
Beginning at 14:00

July-September, 2012

The Variations on a Theme Project
For students of architectural institutions of higher learning and young architects

• The creation of focus groups (students and graduate students of architectural institutions of higher learning). Receiving a technical assignment. (Possible technical assignments: a bridge a la Calatrava, kinetic construction. Completion: digital, paper model, architectural graphics).
• Discussion of the projects with students

The facilities of the Youth Centre
August 25th – September 10th, 2012.

• A demonstration of the best student projects

The facilities of the Youth Centre
September 20th–24th, 2012

Inquiries by telephone at 495-71-30, 495-71-00 except for Sundays and Mondays.
                                                               
A series of four lectures entitled “A New Paradigm in Architecture”

• From the “coral reefs” to the “orange peels” (Antoni Gaudi, Alvar Aalto, Eero Saarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Jørn Utzon)
• “In harmony with nature”. The second half of the 20th century (Imre Makovecz, Bart Prince, Javier Senosiain)
• Higher mathematics and architecture (Norman Foster, Félix Candela, Greg Lynn, Nicholas Grimshaw etc.)
• In search of “The Truth of God”. The creative career of Santiago Calatrava

Approximate dates: July 11th, 18th, 25th, August 1st, 2012
The Lecture Hall of the Youth Centre, General Staff Building.
Inquiries by telephone at 495-71-30, 495-71-00 except for Sundays and Mondays
Beginning at 18:00

A class/discussion at the exhibit
The class will be led by employees of scientific research and production centres, members of the “Art of the 20th-21st centuries” seminar. For visitors to the exhibit. By prior registration.
Inquiries by telephone at 495-71-30, 495-71-00 except for Sundays and Mondays

Concluding round table “Architecture as Gesture”
Moderator: A.K. Lepork
September 13th, 2012
The Lecture Hall of the Youth Centre
Beginning at 17:00

Architects, students at high profile institutions, specialists in architecture, teachers etc. are invited
Plans call for S.I. Mikhailovsky, O.I. Yavein and N.I. Yavein, Yu.I. Zemtzov, E.L. Gerasimov, and V.A. Grigoriev.

Questions for discussion:
1) Client and architect. The limits of cooperation.
2) A “new” architecture. Where is the ideal place for it to be realized?

3) Petersburg as a place to apply a new architectural paradigm – reality or pipedream?

Educational programme on the occasion of Anthony Gormley's exhibition