✚ How does contemporary architecture shape our way of life? ✚ How do contemporary architects solve social problems? ✚ How does contemporary architecture interact with history? ✚ How is this reflected in the practice of developing historic cities, in restoration ideologies, in discussions about heritage preservation, including that of the modernist era? ✚ How is an architect's "professional kitchen" structured, how is the path from a building's concept to its implementation constructed, and what design forms and technologies mediate it? ✚ How do practicing architects—the seminar's guests—see the values ​​of their profession and the specifics of today's practice? ✚ What problems are discussed, and what values ​​and ideas are affirmed, by the authors of the texts proposed for discussion at the seminar?