The social benefits of the consumer society, and the architectural and artistic means of expression in a minimalist architecture

The subject of research is the architectural and artistic means of expression of social benefits of the consumer society in minimalist architecture. Artistic features of the minimalist architecture are considered as means of expression of socially important amenities of the consumer society, providing a high quality of life of a modern man, and showing his well-being. The article uses a systematic approach and the interpretative method of generalization of knowledge of various sciences, based on involvement of the history research on the theory of sociology and architecture in art. In the second part of the article а semiotic method of describing the style-forming features of the minimalist architecture based on social interpretation of architectural space and forms that contains in it is applied. In the study, the author revealed the architectural and artistic means of representation of socially important values of a consumer society in minimalist architecture. On the basis of an interdisciplinary approach to research involving the theory of sociology and architecture the article presents the analysis of the artistic features of the architecture Minimalism, based on which it can be concluded that the language of architectural minimalism is an artistic means of broadcast of socially important goods of the consumer society, providing a high quality of life.