The Necessity of Using Developed Cultural Traditions in Contemporary Architecture of South of Russia

Nowadays travelers all over the world are eager to see local traditional architecture typical for the given area. But the globalization processes that penetrated into architectural sphere as well, have turned the historical centers of many towns and cities into twins in their spatial pattern, technologies and materials used. As a rule, these are buildings made of glass and concrete, so characteristic for rational contemporary solutions. At the same time, there is historical architecture, surprisingly surviving in quiet outskirts of southern Russian cities and attracting genuine interest. Using photometry methods, the authors have detected, analyzed and graphically processed these examples. This architecture retained facade patterns representing artistic work of different people inhabiting the region. Each of these nations brought their own national traditions in the way of life and ornamental decoration of houses in specific form and pattern. It gives room for imagination of modern architects.