Perpustakaan Digital ITB

Statement of the problem. Architectural and engineering activities are currently in a state of transition to a new system of values different to the one which formed the basic modern concepts and methods. This transition requires a comprehensive understanding. The former belonged to the era of modernism ideology, it ignored the value of the place, the region, the environment. Its methods were focused on the universal and global, but not on the local and placeness. As a result, not only the sad loss occurred in the images of habitats, but also the methodological structure of the activity was distorted. Today’s agenda requires a critical analysis of the method of creation and maintenance of the architectural education and the development of new conceptual ideas for the activity renovation. Results and conclusions. We propose an analysis of the situation in the architectural and design activity, identified the main causes of the humanitarian and socio-environmental crisis, the dominant business model. It argued the need for an architectural creation paradigm shift and revision of the grounds of architectural education. We consider some of the ideas and principles of the architectural renovation and educational activities focused on the implementation of the values of habitat, supporting and developing the existential quality of the environment.