ARCHITECTURE IN THE CONTEXT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT

While studying stages of architecture development, interconnections in development of technical and technological achievements and architecture have been found. Modern stage of development of technological achievements is characterized as ?digital?. Changes in nature of technologies makes architects search for new concepts and methods of projecting. In this article the author considers levels of influence of information technologies on the architecture. The author considers examples of the following questions: how modern architects react on these changes; within the framework of which concepts did they built a structure the building; development of which technologies led to certain changes. After considering concepts the author has determined two main grounds within which the building project must be developed: hard-project and soft-project. Their definitions and contents are presented.