Designing a project is making a chain of consecutive choices until they solidify into the built object. Architects make these choices on the basis of their conviction of what is the right way to do things. The choices together form a text explaining how we should see the world: an architectural theory.

Within all the architectural discourses we can identify groups of architects who use the same arguments and come to similar results. These groups can often be found in many countries and in over long periods of time. In an attempt to open up Russian architecture to the world, we show a number of tendencies that can be found in Russian as well as foreign architecture.

Historicism Curator: Maksim Atayants	Simplicity Curator: Kirill Ass	Expressionism Curator: Levon Ayrapetov

Each tendency is represented by recent projects of architects from various countries. Curator of each part is a Russian architect whose work fits best to one of the tendencies.