M.Yu.

Zhuravlev
TEMPORALITY OF URBAN PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE: A SYSTEMIC APPROACH
The article is focused on the contextual characteristics of architecture. From the viewpoint
of gnosiology, architecture is part of major areas of knowledge, such as science, technology, and
art. At the same time, it is of the same importance as other related areas, including history, art, and
construction technology. Being an open system, architecture is strongly interrelated both with upper-
level and same-level felds, and no solid system is isolated. Subsequently, architecture has strong
links with history. As the result, development of architecture has a strong temporal connection with
development of all areas mentioned above.
The author argues that architecture should essentially be treated as an open dynamic system
in correlation to its context. After a closer look at urban planning, it is considered to be the essence of
architecture-related activities, and the author comes to the conclusion that it (as well as the architec-
ture itself) is the most large-scale and complex phenomenon from the viewpoint of time and space.
The system classifcation by A.V. Boldachev is applied to describe the characteristics of ar-
chitecture treated as a system. In light of this theory, architecture can be described in terms of a
dynamic system as a fow of transitions. Based on this conclusion, the author states that architec-
ture as a knowledge system needs to be studied with closer attention from temporal point of view, it
should be treated as a process, a fow of changing states of the system in time.
Key words: architectural theory, history of architecture, time-based architecture, time-distrib-
uted system, dynamic system, fow of transitions.
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Ab o u t t h e a u t h o r: Zhuravlev Mikhail Yurevich Assistant Lecturer, Department of Architecture,
Samara State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (SSUACE), 194 Molodogvardeyskaya
St., Samara, 443001, Russian Federation; +7 (927) 760-73-21; mihail_zhuravlev@inbox.ru.
F o r c i t a t i o n: Zhuravlev M.Yu. Temporalnost gradostroitelstva i arkhitektury: sistemnyy podkhod
[Temporality of Urban Planning and Architecture: a Systemic Approach]. Vestnik MGSU [Proceedings of
Moscow State University of Civil Engineering]. 2012, no. 8, pp. 2025.