CONSTRUCTION AS A CULTURAL AND CIVILIZATIONAL PHENOMENON

Abstract

Construction is an imperative feature of any social life. In other words, every animal form that practices a social type of life uses a construction tool to meet its everyday and future needs. Man as a representative of the species Homo sapiens is no exception to this rule; moreover, unlike other social species, his use of the construction option contains many specific features – in particular, man purposefully cultivates, systematizes and catalogs construction capabilities, skills and resources. This leads to the fact that at the level of human society, construction capabilities are implemented as fully, effectively and creatively as possible. They are each fixed in the form of a kind of step, which subsequently serves as a point of reference and a motivational impetus for movement towards the next qualitative step. Finally, in the case of human society, we are dealing with another important feature: construction acquires distinct cultural and civilizational features – in the sense that practically every more or less complex construction object appears as a visual embodiment of a certain cultural and civilizational code, style, symbolism. This also means that the meanings and meanings that are given to practically identical construction objects by different socio-cultural environments can differ significantly. Moreover, such a culturally and civilizationally conditioned conflict of interpretations can be inherent even to one society in different historical eras, which indirectly proves the historical non-identity of society to itself. Such features and patterns actualize the need to deepen cultural and civilizational competence in general and in the context of the phenomenon of construction in particular.