Esthetics and architectural heritage

One of the most important problems of architectural environment is ethical and aesthetical approach to the historical regions and separate monuments of architecture. For Belarus this problem is very important because of long-existed social-political views (the opposition of gentry class’ and people’s architecture), and also the traditional competition here of the catholic and orthodox churches. At the same time more than a thousand gentry estates, palaces and castles are still preserved in Belarus as buildings, parks or their fragments. Temples of the 18-19-th centuries determine in many ways skylines of many towns and rural settlements. The problems of architectural preservation and restoration give birth to the questions of the correlation “new-old”, of architecture of the past as imperishable value and technology of works and aesthetics of separate monuments. The ways of solution of this problem lie both in the professional and ethical fields, in the humanization of architectural environment as the aim of modern practice