The purpose of the study is to streamlining the picture of the development of modern architectural science in the confrontation between the Modern and Counter-Modern movements against the background of the polarization of Modernism and Postmodernism. To achieve this goal, we analyzed the stages of development using conceptual grids – functional, spatiotemporal, informational, and canonical. The reformist ideas of the СІАМ and UIA congresses provoked changes in development and initiated the search for new vectors and landmarks. The analysis of these landmarks revealed the presence of separate branches other than modernism and postmodernism. New directions of architectural science (Ekistics, Arcology, and Critical Regionalism) were born on this basis. We have developed the principles of Urban Synergetics, which complemented this series. One of its methods allows to considering the general picture of the development of architectural science and art from the standpoint of cyclical self-organization. It is associated with the successive alternation of Romanticism, Modernism, Classicism, and Postmodernism. These areas developed according to the Vitruvian triad and its dynamic version – strength, utility, perfection, and beauty. This approach opens up prospects for defining new landmarks of development, contributes to the return of architecture to the status of tectonic and plastic art. We have proposed a system of genre architectural design to revive this status. It includes architectural topics, rhetoric, tropics, and poetics. The research diagnoses the current state and predicts the development of architectural science.

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