Philosophy of architecture as an ethical and aesthetic foundation of architectural practice
The article considers, on the basis of modern foreign materials, the content of the philosophy of architecture as the ethical and aesthetic foundation of architectural activity. The author establishes the terminological meaning of the concepts "philosophy of architecture", "ethics of an architect", "metaethics of architecture". The work reveals the relationship of these concepts, which makes it possible to determine the ethical and aesthetic significance of architectural practice as a whole. The author establishes the variants of the relationship between ethical and aesthetic in architecture and analyzes the contradictions arising on the basis of these variants between the ethical and aesthetic meanings of architecture; the prospects for the development of the philosophy of architecture in the aspect of the emerging digital society are determined.