Centennial Message

საუკუნოვანი გზავნილი. A catalogue marking a hundred years of the architecture faculty of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, founded in 1922 — part of the Academy’s project “Connections of Memory”, supported by the Ministry of Culture of Georgia. Published in 2026, in Georgian and English.

The book retraces Georgian architectural thought as a dialogue of three epochs, from the academic tradition and Soviet monumentalism of the 1920s–1950s to the present, in portraits of the school’s architects: Simon Kldiashvili, Anatoly Kalgin, Nikolai Severov, Archil Kurdiani, Tariel Kutateladze, Davit Morbedadze and many others.

Much of the material — hand-drawn blueprints, sketches, models and photographs — comes from the architects’ family collections and the Academy’s own archive, digitised here to save it from loss. The cover carries the photo-document “Tbilisi General Plan – 1970”.

Text by Nestan Tsiklauri, edited by Manana Janelidze; photography by Yuri Mechitov; translated by Lali Kereselidze. Design by Sandro: 156 pages, A4.