Mikhail Utkin Biography

It seems that you are walking like that, walking, wrapping around the corner and finding yourself in another dimension ... In fact, barely crossing the threshold, you are already outside the usual.

The environment is like that! As you know, the Higher School of Wednesday Design as a structural unit of the Moscow Architectural Institute has been operating since the year. To see how the projects of environmental design differ from design projects of the interior or landscape is interesting in itself. But there was also hope to chat with the head of this unique school. Professor Utkin was in the best mood ...

Mikhail Fedorovich, admit, because by creating the Higher School of Economics, you gave the opportunity to get a creative specialty, and even a Markha’s diploma of professional retraining for those who did not dare to dream about it. Yes, so. In order for the applicant to enter the institute after school, it is necessary to engage in drawing and drawing at least two years before at least two years.

But what is interesting ... After all, even those who have art training do not always fall into the top ten, in a professional sense. And here, in the High Service, we saw that a person without due basic skills, but, of course, with talent and desire! Theoretically, in order to state the material, two years quite quite. Moreover, we have these two years are divided into modules by a couple of months-in real life, the design project on average is performed just two months.

And we say: “Guys, we prepare you for real activities; Yes, you must complete your first project to redevelop a city apartment on time. ” We explain everything: the principles and stages of design, how to make an estimate, a calendar plan, the basis of a dialogue with the customer ... And then, working under the guidance of a teacher, they begin to master the technology of creativity, design technology.

Will a full -fledged designer get out of each? A person must experience pleasure from creative work, then he is in his place. But people are not the same, someone is burdened, he feels that this is not his. In general, everything looks like. But when we do the first project, we do not pay attention to the architectural graphics. We say: "Do not draw, you can draw as a child, but you must convey your idea to us." The most important thing is to be able to generate an interesting idea, to look at the world through the eyes of an artist-creator, to understand how to make useful beautiful!

Suppose, here they will bring you a drawing on which everything is correctly drawn, but there is no idea there. And who needs him? If you have a choice, you will not go to live in a faceless house, right? Giving tasks to your students, do you somehow limit them, for example, in choosing a style? We try not to limit anything. Creativity is always outside. This is always a way beyond the framework of conventions, beyond the boundaries of their comfort, the norms of universally recognized.

To achieve success, it is necessary to go beyond the usual, familiar. If you do not go out, then do not move forward ... Mikhail Fedorovich, today there are a lot of interesting design schools. What exactly is me in mind? Wednesday - everything that surrounds us. And, everything that surrounds us is the subject of the work of the environmental designer. Therefore, his specialty is endless and promising.

The environmental designer develops both a residential interior, and industrial and city ... streets, squares are the interior of the city ... You ask: “What is your main material? They answer: "Well, like what, reinforced concrete panels, brick, tree." Space is our basis material! Design triad - object, process, space - this is the environmental designer! We all live in space, and on what its proportions are, what it is arranged, a lot depends on, our health depends ...

Tell me, as parting words, to your students: is the customer is always right or not? Of course not! We must find a compromise. In any field of activity, and in general in life - always and with everyone needs to find a compromise ... including with the customer. Do not follow him, but do not impose on him. Look for a solution that arranges both. Usually the customer expresses some individual wishes.

And you, as a specialist, are obliged to put them in a beautiful concept, a whole concept.