Our Future: Children or Old Age? New Goals of Continuing Architectural Education

Abstract

The research is aimed at the potential of the professional architectural education and solving one of the important problems of society-creating conditions for maintaining health and social rehabilitation of older people. The experience of universities, public organizations, museums in Europe and North America was analyzed. Six types of strategies of these organizations were identified. They were differing in the degree of development of social and professional communications. The most interested in developing supplementary architecture and art education for older people are Colleges of Arts and Art museums. In the first case, the communication's basis of the Colleges is there interest in the public appreciation of new art works. In the second case, the social missions of the Art museums. At the final stage, the sociological study of the attitude towards these programs among the participants of the Moscow Mayor's Project "Moscow Longevity" had been done. It showed that the most attractive for 3-d age people was the opportunity to visit the Moscow Architectural Institute-an architectural monument and communicate with professors.