Architectural practice of shaping urban spaces through the prism of traditional ideas of the Turks (Nursultan, Kazakhstan)

The article discloses architectural ideas, aesthetics, ethics and social of state power in terms designing spaces the city Nursultan. Universals traditional Turkic culture modern stimulating impulses creativity are analyzed. criteria for searching a "collective portrait" representation urban ways constructing mythological symbolic meanings them revealed. Architectural images formed at level accepted literary patterns - mythological, formations. urbanization metropolitan place determines hierarchically organized semiotic product that has stability archaic meanings, as stages construction, with ethnic mythopoetic constructivism, marked by conditional concepts “capital nodes”. first spatial node was revealed principles new independent self-sustained world order, renaming streets virgin land, but adding an object Presidential Palace Culture. second Nurzhol Boulevard laid down principle spatiality Ritual Path through Exhibition Independence Achievements: from one structure Power to another, replacing Square, Soviet form ritual expression. third began shopping malls, making out closing Way passage, which eventually culminated appearance image Sphere-Universe EXPO 2017. This development figurative forms reveals understanding acquiring topological space "face" capital, primarily republican, regional planetary scale.