Company / Institute
Laboratory of Urban Research and Projects ArchNOVA Lab; Moscow Institute of Architecture

Track
Track 2: BESIDE THE MEGACITY and the role of other cities and areas: planning for balance

Position
ArchNOVA Lab managing partner; Associate Professor of Urban Planning Department of Moscow Institute of Architecture

Bio
Fedor Kudryavtsev, 1970, Russia, Moscow, managing partner of ArchNOVA Lab and associate professor of Moscow Institute of Architecture (MARHI).

I was trained of “art to organize space”, as my teachers in famous Moscow Institute of Architecture used to say. I graduated from MARHI in 1993 and have completed postgraduate course on inner city development in the Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) in Rotterdam in 1995.

I have started independent architectural and planning practice in 1998. The spaces I have been working out during last two decades ranged from single family house to city agglomerations like the one of Moscow that counts now around 18 million citizens. My design experience has been getting a strong support by teaching in MARHI since 1996 and by applied and theoretical studies I have been simultaneously undertaking as Head of the Laboratory of Urban Studies of MARHI in 2006-2016.

Since 2018, I am running private Laboratory of Urban Research and Projects ArchNOVA Lab, which aim is to develop urban studies on emerging urban phenomena and convert them into advanced urban and architectural projects. My team is working both locally in Russia and internationally, current projects include comparative study of BRICS largest agglomerations, new model of mass Soviet housing renovation in Moscow, research on Soviet planning legacy in China, development of rehabilitation model for urban areas with higher levels of criminal activities in Russian cities, study on self-organization of large scale urban structures in megacities and planning applications of big data analysis.

My favorite projects engage city strategic planning, studies of new urban phenomena, architectural design, master planning and planning theory. Among them there were conceptual schemes for Moscow (2009) and Saint-Petersburg (2016) agglomerations, new vision for Korolev science city: researches, strategies, key projects (2014), research on self-organization of city scale urban structures from mass local changes (grant of Russian Fund for Basic Research № 09-06-13528-офи_ц., 2008-2011), scenario of vast industrial area redevelopment in Saint-Petersburg (2014). Many of my international projects were fulfilled with my Chinese colleagues, including study on high-density urban forms in Shantou (2013), comparative study on Moscow and Beijing urban dynamics (2013-14), short term consulting of Guangzhou Eastern Bay Area project (2017).

Intensive teaching of Specialists, Bachelors and Masters in MARHI, international workshops in Poland, Russia and China, reviewing articles in CITIES, Landscape and Urban Planning, Habitat International magazines and 50 publications have been making me a pleasure to widely share my experience and knowledge.

1. Second Plenary - 09 Sep, 2019

2. Closing Plenary - 12 Sep, 2019

3. 5.7 Cities And Digitisation: Perspectives And Challenges Of Data Informed Urban Planning & Design (Special Session) - 12 Sep, 2019