The Problem of Attitudes towards History in the Theory of Architecture of Postmodernism

The article contains a study of changes in the attitude to history in the foreign architecture of the twentieth century, in connection with the radical transformation of the perception of categories of time. The peculiarity of the sensation of time in the period of modernity is accompanied by the feeling of being at a particular point of the eternal "now", constant modernity, for which you need to keep up with the actualized state of being "in step with the times". In this state, the memory value is reduced to a minimum. For the "modern man", turning to the past becomes meaningless if there is only a series of obsolete, outdated and irrelevant forms in it It is replaced by the feeling of being in the position of exhaustion, completeness, and impossibility of producing innovations, reaching thelimit in the discovery of the new, which leads to the feeling of the end of history, the exhaustion of art. This leads to the decline of modernism, the emergence of fatigue and satiety in the race for technology and a departure from orientations to newness, which opens the way for a new attitude towards history as a source for inspiration, and its corresponding rediscovery in the late twentieth century, expressed in multiple retrospectives, conservative, traditionalist searches in art and architecture. The study touches upon the problems of postmodernism, as a style that opens a new round of references to history, viewed as a form of neo-traditionalism and eliminating a state of stalemate in a culture that has broken its ties with the past. The article presents various areas of the historical search of postmodern architects differing in their attitudes towards the phenomenon of history, continuity, and inheritance.