Architects History

Architecture architectura and ultimately from Greek "a master builder", from a"chief, leader" is the art and science of designing buildings

Buildings structures A wider definition would include within its scope also the design of the total built environment, from the macrolevel of town planning Town_planning, urban design , and landscape architecture to the microlevel of creating furniture. Architectural design usually must address both feasibility and cost for the builder , as well as function and aesthetics for the user .Planned architecture often manipulates space , volume , texture , light , shadow , or abstract elements in order to achieve pleasing aesthetics . This distinguishes it from applied science or engineering , which usually concentrate more on the functional and feasibility aspects of the design of constructions or structures.

In the field of building architecture, the skills demanded of an architect range from the more complex, such as for a hospital or a stadium , to the apparently simpler, such as planning residential houses. Many architectural works may be seen also as cultural and political symbols, and/or works of art. The role of the architect, though changing, has been central to the successful (and sometimes less than successful) design and implementation of pleasingly built environments in which people live. According to the very earliest surviving work on the subject, Vitruvius' De architectura good buildings satisfy three core principles: Firmness, Commodity, and Delight[2] ; architecture can be said to be a balance and coordination among these three elements, with none overpowering the others. A modern-day definition sees architecture as addressing aesthetic, structural, and functional considerations. However, looked at another way, function itself is seen as encompassing all criteria, including aesthetic, psychological, and cultural ones.

Most modern-day definitions of "good buildings" recognize that because architecture does not exist in a vacuum architectural form cannot be merely a compilation of historical precedent, functional necessities, and socially aware concerns, but must also be a transcendent synthesis of all of the former and a creation of worth in and of itself. As Nunzia Rodanini stated[3] “Through its aesthetic dimension architecture goes beyond the functional aspects that it has in common with other human sciences…Through its own particular way of expressing values, architecture can stimulate and influence social life without presuming that, in and of itself, it will promote social development…To restrict the meaning of (architecture) formalism to art for art’s sake is not only reactionary; it can also be a purposeless quest for perfection or originality which degrades form into a mere instrumentality”.