The aim of the study is to make an inventory of buildings of performing arts and their stylistic and functional features, and analyzing an overall development process of various types of buildings in the second half of the 20th century, to determine how the prevailing stylistic trends in the world, having blended with the local building traditions, had influenced and defined the place of Latvian architecture and cultural heritage in the European context. The study is based on the analysis of the architecture of performing arts buildings. A number of unpublished sources and archival materials have been discovered and a method of monographic and historical approach has been used.