Authors

Laletina Anna D., Morozova Olga V.
EVOLUTION AND ACTUALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT OF«PUBLIC URBAN SPACE»

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №3 (75) September, 2021

In this study, we are looking for the most relevant approach to the concept of “public urban space” and examines tendencies in the evolution of both the definition itself and the research approach to its study. The research methodology presents an analysis of the historical process of understanding and defining the public urban space and an analytical comparison of typological concepts based on the interdisciplinary approach to the study of the public urban space. The study responds to the need to develop a theoretical basis for future practice based on an updated definition of public urban space that would most accurately reflect the modern context of public urban space creation and take into account further developments of this concept. The output of this research work an updated definition of public urban space and its typological scheme, their scientific substantiation and structured description of the evolutionary process of the notion of public urban space, both in theory and practice.

Kustovinova Elena S., Morozova Olga V.
PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND PLANNING OF MODERN SCHOOLS IN FINLAND

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №2 (66) June, 2019

The article discusses how to increase the efficiency of a school building through its architectural and planning arrangement. Successful examples of using school building architecture to improve the quality of education are drawn from the school building practice in Finland. The study seeks to identify architectural and planning principles underlying school design and planning in Finland, reviews the development of the Finnish educational principles and the impact of educational activities on school design. The analysis of architectural Finnish school design projects has suggested principles of school building architectural design and planning. Prospects for their use by Russian designers are estimated.

Gudkov Alexey A., Morozova Olga V.
SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THE METHODOLOGY OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH INTO OBJECTS OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №1 (33) March, 2011

The level that humanitarian knowledge has reached opens up new prospects for the use of traditional research methodologies in architectural studies, including a sociological approach to studying objects of architectural history.

Today, the principal areas of methodological interaction between architectural studies and sociology exist within the disciplinary boundaries of the sociological part of urbanism, in the sociology of architecture, and as a separate branch of historical architectural studies. The theoretical and practical importance of such interaction is explained by the fundamental disciplinary complementarity of historical architectural studies and sociology.

A brief literature review of socio-historical architectural studies reveals the importance of studying just the methodology of sociological approach to architectural historiography. A classification of the methodological approaches of sociology and its division by level is provided with the aim of emphasizing differences in the methodological foundations of specific studies (empirical – theoretical, positivistic – understanding). The principles of ‘understanding’ sociology prove to be more important for historical architectural studies since they establish "transition bridges» between the level of architecture and the level of society. Communication between architecture and social phenomena is revealed by identifying the social characteristics of a monument (such as its social functions), by determining types of social influence and the social features and characteristics of society that have a direct bearing on architecture. The basic level of understanding with regard to the organization of the society to which an architectural project studied belongs is ensured by means of a procedure of social stratification of society (macro- and micro-sociology).

The source base features a certain degree of breadth. To resolve sociological issues in the area of history of architecture, use is made of not only data from related disciplines but also of their methods. Given such approach, the ultimate result of the work is an understanding of the socio-cultural meaning of an architectural object which spreads beyond the genesis and functional aspects, which are regarded as priorities today. This opens new prospects for the advancement of this method.