Independent Landscape Pavilion of the Republic of Armenia

In 1990, on the verge of Armenian independence, in the Bem journal of the Union of Theatre Professionals of Armenia Levon Abrahamian published an article titled "Ritual, Pre-theatre and the Theatre Square", with attending photo illustrations by Zaven Khachikyan.

Throughout the 20th century Gyumri saw two major earthquakes and if the earthquake of 1926 only ruined some houses and became history, that of 1988 not only rocked the entire city but also its soul.

Virtually, the contemporary cemetery, aside from the few still remaining parts in the old tradition (which disappear very quickly), are the most extravagant and lacking any conceptual solution component of contemporary Armenian urban landscape.

Expanded Housing is a study aimed to map peculiarities of these expansions and try to understand social and psychological roots of this continuous and endless urban morph.

Metsamor is a company town of Nuclear Power Plant which for me is the crystalized phenomenon of Armenia's recent history - from late Soviet and early independent Armenia. It is a clear soviet modern program with some local “national” elements that failed with the collapse of Soviet Union when the central financing was stopped and the power plant was shut down as a result of environmental activism.