Innovations in the Language of Contemporary Culture and the Problem of the Preservation of Cultural Heritage

In the beginning of the new century, the issues of connection between the problems of preservation of cultural heritage and aspects of globalization and development of mass culture are still relevant. The desire to combine somehow the preservation of heritage and the shaping of the new creative architecture is obvious in many projects. At that, as one can see from the material of the global practice of reconstructions, the problem of creativity is solved in different ways depending on the adherence of a certain author and a customer to Classical or Non-Classical trends of contemporary culture. The article offers a brief analysis of architectural practice of the recent decades in the field of adaptation or transformation of objects of cultural heritage. The authors make accent at the connection of such works with the peculiarities of the humanitarian culture of our time; they stress some aspects of the looming conflict of the heritage and actual trends in the architecture of the new century.