✚ How can a building be analyzed as historical and social evidence? ✚ What messages does a building convey, what does it “speak” to the viewer – through its plan and facades, interior structure and exterior appearance, composition and details, the nature of the concept and the quality of execution? ✚ How is architecture “read,” how can one connect the viewer’s experience, the social, ideological, and political contexts of historical and contemporary construction – and the values ​​that architects themselves associated with their profession? ✚ How was the professional vision of architecture organized by architects themselves – and how did this vision relate to the social use of architecture? ✚ How is an opinion about a building, about a project, formed, how is a critical and analytical text constructed? ✚ How are the criteria of architectural quality defined in different eras? ✚ What apparatus can an art historian use to analyze an architectural monument? ✚ What concepts and terms mediate architectural morphology and composition, what is the genealogy of the main categories of formal discourse in architecture?

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