University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG)

In accordance with the current concepts of architectural creative work, the contemporary post-modern and post-structural ideas and the semiotic schools of the French and the Russian structuralism serve as a basis of the course and as its methodological platform. The following are presented: the history of the discipline, the basic concepts and ideas of the current theory of architecture, modern hypotheses about the mechanisms and objective laws of the development of architecture as an art. Special attention is paid to the problem of the diversity of architectural functions, of the complex nature of architecture as a physical environment and a linguistic artistic structure.