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This is the first lecture from the course "How We Feel Architecture." In it, architectural historian Sergei Kavtaradze talks about the techniques architects use to control our thoughts and feelings. Listen to the full course: https://arzamas.academy/courses/1093?... You can enter a promo code for a discount on an Arzamas subscription here: https://arzamas.academy/promo The course has only three lectures, but they will undoubtedly make you look around in a completely new way: 1. What There Is No Architecture Without — about how architecture speaks of eternity, peace and development, about security — and about striving upward. 2. What Architecture Can Do with Space — about how Gothic churches, the Assumption Cathedral, the Parthenon and the Taj Mahal control our attention in different ways. 3. What Architectural Styles Are Made of. About how we know that a Baroque church is Baroque, and a Renaissance palace is Renaissance. The best way to listen to this course is to walk around the city and look around. However, even if you are in the countryside and there are only fields and forests in front of you, you will probably be able to perfectly imagine everything the lecturer is talking about - it seems that this is the best example of how to talk about architecture without pictures. If you are not subscribed to Radio Arzamas, listen to the first lecture right here - you might want to subscribe right away. Sergey Kavtaradze is an architectural historian, a lecturer at the School of Design at the Higher School of Economics and a laureate of the Enlightener Prize for his book Anatomy of Architecture. Seven Books on Logic, Form and Meaning. *** Arzamas is an educational project about the history of culture https://arzamas.academy/. Our courses and podcasts can be listened to in the Radio Arzamas app http://arzamas.academy/radio. And in order not to miss new materials, follow us on social networks: Instagram: / arzamas.academy FB: / arzamas.academy VK: https://vk.com/arzamas.academy Twitter: / arzamas_academy Telegram: https://t.me/ArzamasLive