Эволюция архитектуры административных зданий города Кишинэу

Abstract

The article describes the stages of development of architecture of office buildings of the city of Chisinau from the end of 19th century (building of the pro-vincial administration) to the present day (business centers). The description of the stages and their stylistic trends reflects the evolution of architectural tech-niques, and also demonstrates a great variety of stylistic and compositional prin-ciples from eclecticism and neoclassicism to modernism, postmodernism, decon-structionism and hi-tech.