Algimantas Mačiulis, collection code VAM-2
A. Mačiulis is Lithuanian painter architect, Doctor of Arts, professor, architecture historian and critic and public man. Algimantas Mačiulis was born in Kaunas on 3 May 1931. In 1949 he graduated from high school in Alytus. In 1949-1955 he studied at the LSSR Institute of Art. In 1955-1956 he was an architect of the design group of Vilnius interregional architecture department. In 1956-1960 – chief architect in Druskininkai city. In 1961-1965 – chief architect at Vilnius Building Trust. In1965-1968 – chief architect Vilnius municipal engineering institute. In 1969-1971 – chief artist of Vilnius City. Since 1971, lecturer at LSSR Institute of Art; in 1972 – docent there. In 1979 he became Ph. D. in art history. [1] In 1982-1993, head of Faculty of Applied Arts at Art Institute. In 1984-1987, head of department of Interior installation of Institute of Art, in 1987 – professor there. In 1998-2008, vice-president of the Senate of Vilnius Academy of Art; since 2008, President of the Senate of Vilnius Academy of Art. Since 1958, a member of the Architects Association of Lithuania; 1966-1969, Executive Secretary of the Union Board. Since 1995, a member of Society of Lithuanian historians; in 1995-1998 – deputy chairman, in 2001-2004 – a chairman. In 1996-2000, a member of the Board of Lithuanian National Radio and Television, in 1999-2000 – a chairman of the Board. Since 1998, a member of scientific editorial board of Universal Lithuanian Encyclopaedia. Since 2007 – a special member of Lithuanian Architects’ Chamber. He has designed interiors, expositions at exhibitions, festivals events.
He is among very few architects of his generation who, in addition to the design, is actively engaged in scientific activity. He has published about 100 articles related to architecture theory, interaction of arts, urban aesthetic issues. While writing his dissertation, he went deeper into the interaction between architecture and art; then this has published numerous pieces of works on this topic: in1997 – a textbook “Architecture. Styles, composition, interaction of arts”; in 2003 – “Art in Architecture“. When designing, A. Mačiulis also showed extensive creed: from current manifestations of modernism in architecture, for example, brutalism (beer restaurant “Tauro ragas” (with arch. E. Gūzas)) to interpretations of regionalism brought from Finland (he paid a lot of attention to the environment of particular object, coordinated his created object with the surrounding by scale, materials, for example, when designing Culture and sports palace of LSSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, developed sustainable urban composition also reacting to St. Peter and St. Paul’s church standing on the other side of the Neris), and after having received the task to create a complex with school and swimming pool in Alksnupiai, went deeper into individuality of such kind of constructions in rural areas. As there was no church in Alksnupiai, i.e. expressive vertical, the architect offered to build a swimming pool with a water tower, with a form reminding dominants of villages. His works are of high architectural quality and stylistically integral to the smallest detail.
Projects:
1956 Utena town master plan
1957 Druskininkai town master plan
1957–2000 Private residential houses, public interiors (in Druskininkai, Vilnius)
1959 4-flat residential house (M.K. Čiurlionis str., Druskininkai)
1965–1970 Builders’ House of Culture (reconstruction, Vytenis str. 6, Vilnius)
1967 “Nakuotnės” collective farm public centre (Duobelė district, Latvia SSR, with Henrikas Šilgalis)
1970 12-storey administrative building of Building Trust in Vilnius (A.Vivulskio str., Vilnius, the project of 1965 – 1966)
1970–1974 Beer restaurant “Tauro ragas” (V. Kudirkos str., with Eugenijus Gūzas, the project of 1967 – 1968)
1971 House of Culture of Nikolajev 61 communard factory (Ukrainian SSR, with Henrikas Šilgalis, Leonard Vaičius)
1974 Interiors for LSSR Ministry of Higher and Special Secondary Education (in1978, with Vytautas Brėdikis and Tadas Baginskis)
1977 Artists’ residential houses and studios (Silo str., Vilnius)
1977 Painter’s Prof. Augustinas Savickis studio (P. Klimo str. 8, Vilnius)
1977 Collective farm “Draugas” public centre (Alksniupiai, Radviliškio district)
1977 Mičiurino collective farm residential complex (Kaunas district)
1982 Culture and Sports Palace of LSSR Ministry of Internal Affairs (Zirmunu str. 1E, Vilnius)
1984 Alksniupiu middle school wing (Radviliškio district)
1986 Swimming pool (Alksniupiai, Radviliškio district)
1997 Druskininkai city general plan (with Neringa Dičiuviene, Sigitas Čereškevičius et al.).
Rewards:
1981 was granted the honorary title of honoured architect of Lithuania
2001 was awarded the Order of the Knight of LAS Architecture
2002 Award of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania for the most topical and outstanding journalistic works on cultural topics
Bibliography:
Architecture. Styles, composition, interaction of arts: a textbook. – Vilnius: VDA publishing house, 1997. – 260 p. – ISBN 9986-571-24-3
Lithuanian architects. – Vilnius: VDA publishing house, 2002. – 647 p.
Art history of Lithuania (et al.). – Vilnius: VDA publishing house, 2002. – 410 p.
Art in architecture. – Vilnius: VDA publishing house, 2003. – 495 p.
Architects Simonas and Gytis Ramuniai: father and son. – Vilnius: VDA publishing house, 2004. – 131 p.: pictures – ISBN 9955-624-00-0
Distinctions of Vilnius city: collection of scientific conference articles. – Vilnius: VDA publishing house, 2006. – 111 p.: pictures – ISBN 9955-624-55-8
Architects Algimantas and Vytautas Nasvyčiai. – Vilnius: VDA publishing house, 2007. – 311 p.: pictures – ISBN 978-9955-624-86-8
Changeable Year: notes of an architect. – Vilnius: VDA publishing house, 2008. – 407 p.: pictures – ISBN 978-9955-854-15-9
Vytautas Edmundas Čekanauskas: an architect. – Vilnius: VDA publishing house, 2011. – 206 p.: pictures – ISBN 978-9955-854-98-2
References:
wikipedija (http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algimantas_Mačiulis)
http://www.mokslas.mii.lt/mokslas/SRITYS/duom00.php?pav=M&sr…
http://www.architektura.vda.lt/index.php/pageid/609/articlepage/0/articleid/225
An interview with A. Mačiulis (interviewed on 26/11/2013, interviewed by A. Štelbienė)
Zigmantas Liandzbergis. Algimantas Mačiulis. Encyclopaedia of Soviet Lithuania, V. 2 (Grūdas-Marvelės). – Vilnius: General publishing house of encyclopaedias, 1986. – 673 p.
Interview with A. Mačiulis, 2013-11-28 (interviewer A. Štelbienė)
