FROM AVANT-GARDE TO MODERNISM: DESIGN THINKING ON THE TURNING POINT
Background. We discuss the dramatic moment in the history of the formation of the design thinking in architecture and design associated with the transition from modernism to the avant-garde in the first half of XX century. Developing the theme of the previous articles, the author reconstructs the processes of transformation of design thinking, methods, educational institutions and teaching forms in connection with the tasks of building the designing industrially-oriented profession. Results and conclusions. It is shown that the distinction between avant-garde and modernism in the history and theory of architectural designing should be carried out on the base of the organization "Megamachine" designing practice, but not in the traditional way art criticism, ie, not as a change arising stylistic figures and trends.