PECULIARITIES OF CULTURAL CENTERS’ ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT

This article examines the experience of the architectural development of cultural centers during the historical period, and explores the main features of cultural centers, the prerequisites for the emergence of a cultural center as an architectural type are determined. The study explored numerous examples of historically significant cultural centers. However, the current paper focuses on several architecturally impactful pieces as part of the analysis. Examples of cultural centers’ architectural development in the Ancient World and the Middle Ages of Asia were analyzed to determine the direction of further research.