Yearly Archives: 2011

“International Award Architecture in Stone” 2011, 12^th Edition.  

 On September 24, 2011, in Verona (Italy)   46^a Marmomacc (Verona, 21^th– 24^th September, 2011) – The Awards Ceremony took place on at the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona. International Award Architecture in Stone, a prize created by Veronafiere-Marmomacc for the best works of architecture done with stone.
The project SVANETI TOWERS – Georgia was the winning project for “Vernacular architecture” Award.
Giorgi Patachuri, researcher from the G. Chubinashvili National Research Centre participated in the project by providing documentation (designs, measurements, drawings, master-plans, photos etc.) and scholarly texts.

Mr. Nika Rurua, the Minister of Culture and heritage Preservation of Georgia, attended the Award ceremony.
The project “SVANETI TOWERS – Georgia” has been included in the twelfth edition of the “International Award Architecture in Stone 2011” – “Glocal Stone, 2011”
Promoted by 46^th Marmomacc, International Exhibition of Marble, Stone and Technologies.

On 20-24 September, 2011 in the National Centre of Manuscripts an International Conference “Georgian Heritage Abroad” was held. Several scholars from G. Chubinashvili National Centre presented their papers on the conference:

Tamar Khundadze, “The Images of Kings in the Architectural Sculpture of Tao-Klarjeti”;

Nino Chichinadze, “Artistic Systems of Georgian Painted Icons of the Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai”;

Mariam Didebulidze, “Medieval Georgian Wall Painting in Tao-Klarjeti and Issues of their Urgent Conservation”.

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Cultural Heritage Directorate of Norway (Riksantikvaren) and ICOMOS Georgian National Committee (ICOMOS Georgia) are pleased to announce International Conference – Community and Historic Environment, which will be held at the Conference Hall of the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia on 20-22 September 2011.

The Conference is organised with the generous support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway. Partners: National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, British Council, G. Chubinashvili National Research Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation.

In 2010, the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the George Chubinashvili National Research Centre launched a joint research project that aims at studying the physical state of Medieval Georgian churches.

From 6 to 20 September 2011, the second stage of the project was conducted. Japanese scholars Shiro Sasano (head of the project), Yasuhito Fujita, Sachiko Hattori, Norio Yoshimoto, and Rika Fujita came to Georgia to carry out field survey and to collect technical data. Six researchers from the George Chubinashvili National Research Centre – Mariam Gabashvili, Giorgi Patashuri, Natia Natsvlishvili, Manon Liluashvili, Irina Mania, and Eter Edisherashvili participated in fieldwork together with the Japanese scholars. The work was coordinated by David Khoshtaria, the head of Medieval Department.

The joint group surveyed Cathedral of King Bagrat in Kutaisi, monasteries in Gelati, Martvili, Ateni, Ubisa, Katskhi, Kintsvisi, Timotesubani, Tsunda, and Zeda Vardzia, cathedrals of Nikortsminda, Samtavisi and Urbnisi, churches at Tsromi, Samtsevrisi, and Koreti.