Review article

The article is devoted to the formulation of the initial provisions and basic concepts of the architectural and urban transformation theory. In their study, the authors use the concepts of framework, fabric, architectural and urban development organisms, "gravity lines" worked out by I. Golosov. The architectural and town-planning composition is asserted to be an aesthetically stipulated configuration of material elements and spaces. The structure of transformation of objects is perceived as a bigger "power" frame, flat or volume-spatial one. Composition and form in the architectural and town-planning sphere is asserted to be inseparable.