Article	Value immunity of architectural education in the age of digital transformation
Authors	Ermolaev A.P., Shulika T.O., Moscow Architectural Institute (State Academy), Moscow, Russia
Abstract	The active introduction of artificial intelligence technologies, algorithms, and parametric modeling tools into the educational and professional process raises fundamental questions about the content and methods of architectural education. What remains for a human architect when a machine has learned to “think” in images, generate concepts, optimize forms, and even anticipate aesthetic preferences? It is precisely at this turning point, when technological tools risk replacing the core of the profession – creative method and personal worldview – that it becomes critically important to turn to time-tested pedagogical systems focused on the development of the author. The article reveals the features of the TAF Workshop methodology with its emphasis on value systems in design, offering not an alternative to digital progress, but rather its necessary philosophical and methodological basis.
Keywords:	digital transformation, artificial intelligence, methodology of architectural education, value systems, TAF Workshop, modernization of thinking
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	UDC 72.067.2:378 DOI: 10.24412/1998-4839-2026-1-282-297 EDN: ZXLYIA
For citation	Ermolaev A.P., Shulika T.O. Value immunity of architectural education in the age of digital transformation. Architecture and Modern Information Technologies, 2026, no. 1(74), pp. 282-297. Available at: https://marhi.ru/AMIT/2026/1kvart26/PDF/18_ermolaev.pdf DOI: 10.24412/1998-4839-2026-1-282-297 EDN: ZXLYIA
Article	Received by the editors on 22.01.2026; approved after review on 12.02.2026; accepted for publication on 10.03.2026; publication date: 15.03.2026