| The word architecture comes from the Latin word | | | | structure, texture, shadow, light, ingredients, plan, along |
| architectura which roughly translated, means master or | | | | with other factors like price, restrictions, labor, and |
| chief builder. Today, the primary connotation of the | | | | machines needed, etc for the intended creation. |
| term relates it to building structures, while secondary | | | | Quite distinctly different from the process of |
| imports can pertain to the basic idea behind the building | | | | engineering design, architecture has its own privileges |
| plan of any entity or organism. | | | | of also being experienced by our senses of seeing, |
| The ancient Roman architect Vitruvius was the first | | | | feeling, smelling, and touching. Though most of us would |
| one to treatise about architecture as early as in the | | | | be culturally biased to think about architecture as |
| first century A.D. Correlating from his work, De | | | | merely a visual treat, the other sensory functions |
| architectura, the builder of a decent structure or a fine | | | | actually dominate the way we react to various |
| architect should be the one who sees that his creation | | | | environments, be it man-made or natural. |
| conforms to the basic three tenets of durability-- that | | | | Works of architecture are taken as more than mere |
| is, it should remain good and strong for a long time, | | | | structures, useful to mankind. They are treated as |
| utility-that is, it should come of good utility for the | | | | symbolic entities standing for culture, politics, and |
| people using it, and beauty-that is, its aesthetic plan | | | | society, as well as forms of sheer artistic expression. |
| should bring joy to the users and make them happy. | | | | Architectural accomplishments of the past have been |
| The philosophy behind architecture has been molded | | | | the key to the way we have been able to decode |
| later by approaches of rationalism, empiricism, | | | | historic and prehistoric life, lifestyle, and progress of the |
| structuralism, post-structuralism, phenomenology apart | | | | two. Additionally, architectural marvels such as the |
| from various other philosophies, one of which was that | | | | Egyptian pyramids and the Roman Coliseum, or much |
| of Louis Sullivan, the father of 19th century | | | | later marvel of the Indian Taj Mahal are not only |
| skyscrapers, who believed that form should always | | | | beautiful works of art, they are also signatures of the |
| follow function. | | | | cultures that created them, apart from being the |
| But apart from buildings and structures, architecture as | | | | bearers of significant symbolism in the imagination and |
| a line of work, relates to the jobs of people or | | | | consciousness of people. |
| technology that provide architectural functions, while as | | | | Through the ages of the Classical civilization of |
| documentation, the word points at the manner or form | | | | Greece and Rome, the Medieval architecture |
| of any entity that is to be created. | | | | approaches of the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, the |
| The main function of architects is to cater to space | | | | Renaissance influence of increased importance on the |
| and refuge requirements of their clientele in a family | | | | human and humanity, to the Modernist view of purity |
| home, a learning place like a school, a religious haven | | | | of form and structure through to the current trend of |
| like a church, or a trade center for business. They | | | | technological expertise blended with environmental |
| perform this by the resourceful, innovative, and artistic | | | | sustainability, architecture and the world around it, is an |
| association and utilization of components needed for | | | | ever-changing concept, that brings in its trail, if not |
| the process, that involve an incredible number of | | | | anything else, newer unmistakable sources of wonder. |
| concepts relating to form, space, mass, volume, | | | | |