THE ROLE AND PLACE OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF ARCHITECTS OF UKRAINE IN FORMING OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF THE FUTURE (AT THE EXAMPLE OF THE LVIV’S REGIONAL ORGANIZATION)

In modern conditions, complex socio-political transformations, the reform of the higher education sector of Ukraine, the general rapid urban development, the active introduction of new building norms,technologies and materials, the extremely rapid exchange of professional information and experience experiments and testing of new ideas – in front of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine (NSAU) as a public professional creative association – new challenges arise. The future of Ukrainian architecture depends on the answers to them, and hence the kind and quality of the environment in which we all live. The real role in these processes is played by the cooperation between the Union and the educational institutions that let students-architects work and architects-scientists workplace, and thus form modern Ukrainian architectural education and science. NSAU, in particular the Lviv’s regional Union Office, is trying to find ways of developing education and science of the future adequate to the time, the needs of society and world trends. NSAU will continue to work both on traditional and newest lines. The following areas of activity should be priorities in the nearest future: organizing practitioners-architects at the All-Ukrainian level (setting up a dialogue between students, scholars and architects who take an active public position), establishing the international educational activities of the Union, the organization of study tours and the use of opportunities that open the membership of the National Union in the International Union of Architects.