Definition+of+Architecture



For me architecture is a lifestyle and I say this because I used to think of it just as a job or a career. As time goes by and I learn more about what it takes to become an architect, I realize that this is not just a way for people to make a living. Architecture is how we look at things and observe how spaces and objects create dynamism around us, it is the way we look at the city and learn why everything has a place. Architecture is in every moment of our lives, but our job as architects to be is to absorb every bit of information we can, and to learn how to create even more original spaces that respond to the society’s need in efficient ways.

After reading some other definitions of what architecture means to some people, I have to say that one of them specially shocked me and made me think about the important task we architects have in our hands.

"// Good architecture is always a perfect expression of the time in which it is built, not only of that time's artistic skill but also, if its interpreted correctly, of its religion, its government, even of its economic and political theories //". - Talbot Faulkner Hamlin

If we think for a moment we can realize that architecture is like an open book of the evolution of mankind itself.