Architectural and Planning Art in the Cultivation of the Living Environment

摘要

The article analyzes primary meanings of architectural activity as the art of natural territories organization and reveals the philosophical and religious foundations of a building culture. It then discusses evolutionary and revolutionary historical processes of the development and degradation of the skill of architects and planners. The crisis in the functioning of the profession of architect and urban planner of modern times is being acknowledged. The necessity of returning to the traditions of cultivation of architecture with the aim of returning it its high status in the system of the arts on the new basis is being formulated.