ABOUT INNOVATION IN ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION
Oday in the society there are global socio-cultural changes of a civilization scale, as a result of which the civilization itself qualitatively changes. There is another revolution in the means of production, in science and technology, in information technology. In the final analysis, civilization changes its status - from «industrial» to «post-industrial». Naturally, the question arises: what is the innovation in architecture and architectural education today, if we take for comparison a conditional time period of about 100 years, that is, beginning in 1917, the year when Russia began actively searching for its identity? In architecture there were many positive changes, especially this is the achievement of the so-called «Russian avant-garde» of the 1920s, and first of all - «constructivism». Among the changes of a negative nature, there have been changes in the architectural activities of the fifties, both quantitative and qualitative. The lack of architects from the quantitative point of view has now become an outrageous fact. The qualitative characteristics of Russian architectural activity in comparison with the architectural activities of Western countries today also require special attention in connection with the tightening of competition between world trade organization (WTO) countries.