Stylistic trends in the development of the architecture of the city of Chisinau in the XX-XXI centuries

Th e architecture of the city of Chisinau has been formed for more than a hundred years in diffi cult historical and socio-economic conditions, being infl uenced by the conceptual transformations of world architecture. During the study period, the architecture of buildings underwent a consistent stylistic transformation from historical to modern trends: eclecticism, neoclassicism, modernism, and postmodernism. In the last two decades, there has been an increase in the infl uence of conceptual direct ions of development of foreign architecture on the creative processes of postmodernist orienta tion taking place in Moldovan architecture. Th e research makes it possible to determine the current trends in the development of architecture in Chisinau, denoting them with the concepts – “Convergence”, “Reminiscence” and “contradiction”, which has a certain architectural and stylistic reference with corresponding compositional techniques that refl ect the polystylism of the development of world architecture.