Challenges and Changing Boundaries of Architecture

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problems of determining and changing the boundaries of architecture. Demonstrates the graphical model development of architecture in the uniform time scale, allowing you to comprehend the real borders of the modern history of architecture. It is proposed to binary logic of forming principles of architecture which allows to consider dialectically related juxtaposition of its elements. The basic elements of architecture form, consisting of four parts the materialist "molecular model" profession. It includes ecology, technology, comfort, economy and form the corresponding concepts - improvement; safety, appropriateness, usefulness. Demonstrates how to change the "weight" of the basic elements of architecture at various stages of its development, and the alteration of the boundaries of the profession. Also covers items such as ethics, architecture, beauty, humanism, harmony, which form a kind of kernel architecture specific essence of the architectural profession. Analyses of modern stage centrifugal processes development architecture, its dismemberment into separate parts. A discussion of current challenges, having significant influence on architecture, and change its borders. To them include: globalization, which leads to the appearance of "new" stereotypes; informatization, which creates the effect of accessibility to the profession; greening, which are sometimes far from achieving its proclaimed principles; subjectivism, which gives rise to chaos theory, nihilism and deconstruction; development of the ideology of consumer society, which considers architecture as a commodity; the technological optimism that often loses its signs of humanity. Opened challenges effect on changing the structure and limits of architecture. Compares the "molecular", "centrifugal" and "cosmogony" architecture model and features of their implementations. Outlines approaches to improve the model profession.