architecture is...

…the field of study that combines both the creativity of the arts and the precision of the sciences.

…the design and creation of the built environment around us.

…process in which built structures are designed to be better; aesthetically, ergonomically and functionally.

…an office building in an urban fabric.

…the relationship between the space, the structure and the skin of a built form.

…the application of order upon a visually pleasing environment to enable it to become functional at the same time.

…a house in a rural landscape.

…the procession of style-based eras that have followed one after another, defining the design trend of buildings in a set period of time.

…the built park in my neighborhood.

...all around us.

is it possible to have a built environment without “architecture”?

isn’t any move or decision to alter the existing built environment for anthropological betterment, whether it be a visual or functional change, an architectural change?

with the understanding that architecture is the process in which functional and aesthetically-pleasing forms are designed and created as buildings and structures suited for human use, any changes made to alter even the most plain and utilitarian forms are steps towards creating an order of architecture.  the exception to this statement is in the progression of technology, which has enabled the development of means to mass-produce certain forms and designs used to create buildings.  in this instance, the process of architecture has been bypassed to simply reproduce what has already been used and known to work.  but even so, this stage in reproduction could not have been made possible without the initial creations via architectural development.  all functional spaces actively used by people on a day-to-day basis consist of architectural forms and characteristics.

architecture = a built depiction of human society?

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09/06/2010

Architecture is our way of telling the story without having to do so literally through writing a biography or creating a scrapbook of photographs. It is a means of reading the story through other sensory means, through experience.