Архитектон (Dec 2022)

URBANIZED ENVIRONMENT IN MASTER’S THESES 2019-2022: CURRENT PROBLEMS AND CONCEPTS

  • Zhukovsky Roman S.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.47055/1990-4126-2022-4(80)-34
Journal volume & issue
no. 4(80)
p. 34

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Urbanized environment design and study is a promising inter-disciplinary subject area at the intersection of architectural environment design, urban planning, and architecture. This paper presents a review of the range of challenges and conceptual contents in this area treated in several dozens of recent master's degree theses that received awards at international review competitions in 2019-2022. The research objects of the theses were various urbanized spaces (spaces as places and spaces as communications), as well as some aspects of these spaces (components of spaces, factors of influence on spaces, methods of space development). Semantic analysis revealed not only specific problems and remarkable conceptual solutions, but also universal concepts and approaches to improving various urban environments as internally diverse systems at all levels (urban planning, architecture, environment). The general conceptual field in relation to urbanized environments as viewed by modern master's degree authors may be characterized by the paradigm of "Three Is" (3i-Paradigm): Individualization, Integration, Intellectualization, which includes universal notions and concepts such as "environment targeting", "design code", "scenario approach", "environment permeability", "densification", etc. The article may be of interest to students and graduate project advisers at higher schools of architecture and design.

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