AESTHETIC COMPREHENSION OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN RUSSIAN DESIGN THEORY

The article reveals the peculiarities of the formation of aesthetic thought in the domestic theory and practice of design on the human environment, fixes the modern system of views on the environment as an object of aesthetic experience. The environment is presented not from the standpoint of analyzing intra-environmental aesthetic parameters, or the laws of harmonization, such as shape, rhythm, symmetry, contrast, color, light, but holistically, as a design and aesthetic category of design.