The study of academic discipline provides for the formation and progress of such skills in PHd students:
• analytical competencies (the ability to analyze source data and critical thinking, the ability to search and use information from various types of sources)
• creative thinking;
• understanding of the cause-effect relationships of evolutionary changes in society and the ability to analyze the processes and accompanying events;
• an idea of ontological, temporal, formal, and semantic aspects in the opposition “tradition-innovation” in architecture;
• the ability to analyze the artistic architectural form from the aspect of tradition and innovation;
• understanding of binary opposition and philosophical interpretation of the opposition “tradition-innovation”.
It is expected that the PhD student will be able to use the acquired knowledge when writing a dissertation and in further research work.

previous: Philosophy; History of World Architecture; Modern Architectural Theories and Doctrines
related: Philosophy and Methodology of Science; Futuristic Ideas in the Field of Architecture, Urban Planning, Art and Design

The aim of the study of the discipline "Traditions and Innovation in the Development of European Culture" is to form a scientific outlook of PhD students and familiarize them with the concept of binary opposition of "tradition-innovation" and the evolutionary and revolutionary changes in the development of architecture and culture; provide basic knowledge of the problem of the formation of a holistic theory of style in architecture and duality of the world as the basis for the development of nature and culture.

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5. Frampton K. Modern Architecture: A Critical History (World of Art) – London: Thames & Hudson, Fourth Edition, 2007 – 424 p.

Current control (60%): Individual academic research task
Final control (40%): exam