Architectural Education: Processes, Resources and Strategies

Abstract

Nowadays, as never before, the architectural education demands deep knowledge of regional culture, its heritage as spiritual and material identity of the regions of country. The state of the system of the architectural education is defined both with objective characteristics — in the second half of the 20th century and in the early 21st century, mainly, with architectural schools of Russia, and with those novelties which engulfed all the system of high education in the country. The present-day set of goals of the architectural education and its key part, such as project works, fluctuates within the field of searchers of waymarks in practice and research. The selfdevelopment of the architecture is a process which is considered as an inner professional matter, but it reacts at the processes and provides resources for the architectural education, in general. Education is a system-making foundation of the architectural occupation under the terms of differentiation of the forms of work of planners, and rooting of the principle “education for the whole life-period”. The development of education supposes solving some tasks: organizational, methodical, creative, and research ones. Keywords—architectural education; resources; processes; strategies; contemporary Russia