摘要:The paper is devoted to the historical and architectural aspect of the development of ideas about morphogenesis in architecture and built environment. The paper emphasizes the role and place of the phenomenological area of Russian architectural studies and its influence on the development of formative concepts. A certain innovation is the separation of two branches in the theory of morphogenesis: compositional and phenomenological. The phenomenological concept is considered in the development of ideas of A.G. Gabrichevsky.