M. Levickienė, postgraduate of the Artistic Training Department of Vilnius Pedagogical University, has prepared a master paper on the following topic: “Knowledge of architecture as the means in the process of effectiveness of the artistic interest of the XI – XII grade pupils”. The below indicated problems have been raised in the present paper: what should be a precise description of the universal knowledge of architecture and what influence is made by such knowledge and cognition on the artistic interest of the XI-XII grade pupils? For the foregoing purpose, a pedagogical experiment was carried out in Vilnius Baltupiai secondary school in the course of which, in compliance with the teenagers’ cognitive, identity, psychological art-research literature analysis, a pattern of architecture knowledge and cognition in the lessons of art was drafted. Psychological and art-research literature facilitates to reveal the below-listed main cognition and recognition aspects of architecture: architecture is double recognized – as the world-semanticising, symbolizing and sense-giving side, or as a properly mastered craft. Recognition of tune, harmony, order, symmetry, moral norms and practically useful peculiarities of the object is of great significance with respect to esthetical understanding of architecture. Human physiology, i.e. eyesight, sensation, movement, memory, experience and imagination make great influence on the psychological understanding. In the course of pedagogical... [to full text]