Architecture is:
-An art where the personality of an architect can be expressed
-The process of creating and building an idea
-To design and express ideas to create unique buildings
-The architect’s profession
-The organisation of the spaces we inhabit
-A way of seeing the world through different eyes
-A reflection of how we wish to live
-One of the seven arts. It is a palette of different parts of arts itself. Architecture is the art and science of drawing, and realizing a construction project while working on the exterior and interior design of it and placing its systems following regulations.
Great architect’s reflections
“Architecture is the art of building” Marcus Vitruvius
“A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a work of architecture” Nikolaus Pevsner
“Architecture is the inevitable art, we are in continuous contact with it, we can avoid contemplating paintings, sculpture or any other work of art but architecture. It affects us constantly configures our behaviour and conditions our state of mind” Richard Leland
“Only a very small part of architecture is included in the world of art: funerary and commemorative monuments. Everything else, everything that has a purpose has to be excluded from the world of art” Adolf Loos
“Architecture embraces the entire physical environment that surrounds human life. We cannot escape from it as long as we are part of civilization, because architecture is the sum of modifications and alterations introduced into the land in order to satisfy human needs” William Morris
Architecture as technique
Unlike the arts, sciences, philosophy or any other way of knowing the world, technique is essentially a way of doing. Therefore, technique defines humanity.
The technical dimension places architecture on the border with the arts, goes beyond individual capacity and requires a programming of execution.
How it begins?
Architecture arises from a need or a problem that calls for change.
Architecture is not a utopian event, it is closely linked to the place understood as a support and an active part that determines the relationships between things.