The book is devoted to ideological and artistic problems of architecture, their importance in the complex of tasks of general improvement of quality and social efficiency of construction. The expressiveness and artistic imagery is shown in connection with the assigned structures and the means of their implementation and at the same time as part of the social and ideological and educational functions of architecture. The article analyzes the means of composition used by modern architecture and their connection with the solution of ideological problems. Particular attention is paid to the experiments of foreign postmodernism and the searches that unfolded in Soviet architecture of the 70-80s.