Authors

Meder Eduard A., Karsakova Irina A.
THE PROBLEM OF CRITICAL REFLECTION ON MYTHOLOGICAL «GAMES» IN CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №4 (68) December, 2019

The article deals with the specialized capabilities of computer technologies in the context of the problems relating to the evolution of architecture’s artistic language. Attention is focused on the key factors influencing the processes of architectural form-making, particularly on the strong connection between technological progress and social development. The issue of interrelations in the human foundation of culture and mutual influence between the humanistic aspects of culture and the capabilities of computer technologies are considered along with the problem of searching for other contextually relevant approaches to the formulation of architectural design tasks. The author compares the capabilities of modern computer technologies and the contextual specifics of “digital form-making”. The latter makes an impact on architectural thinking, and, as a result, on the formation of new design principles, which can be described as a kind of morphological “games” in which the role of the author is equalized to that of the operator. The article states the need to reconsider the approach to a new modeling format by adopting design principles that are adequate to new technologies.