Universal aesthetic criteria in architecture

The article is devoted to the search for a universal art criticism method against the background of a crisis in methodology. To this end, the author examines the most important trends of modern architecture through the prism of traditional aesthetic criteria. In the course of this analysis, she presents the specificity of the two “superstyles” (suggested by S. Khan-Magomedov) – classics and modernism. The author extends the meaning of classics and modernism onto the meaning of “traditional architecture” and “modern architecture,” which are considered as projections of two philosophical paradigms: tradition and modernity.