Architecture knowledge

If you are a new architect or a semi architect, this blog may help you to know more about architecture. This blog contains elementary architecture knowledges, which can help to know more about world of architecture. I am very pleased that i can help you.

Definition of Architecture

Architecture can be used to mean :

1. As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures by a person, primarily done to provide socially purposefull shelter. a wider definition often includes the design of the total built environtment, from the macro level of how a building integrates with its surrounding man made landscape to the micro level of architectural or construction details and sometimes furniture.
2. As a proffesion, architecture is the role of those persons or machines providing architectural services.
3. As a documentation, usually based on drawings, architecture defines the structure and behavior of a building or any other kind of system that is to be or has been constructed.

Theory of Architecture

The earliest written work on the subject of architecture is De Architectura, by the roman architect Vitruvius in the early 1st century. A good building should satisfy the three principles of good building, they are firmitatis, utilitatis, and venustatis. Which translates as-

• firmitatis means the durability of a building - it should stand up robustly and remain in good condition.
• utilitatis means the functions of a building - it should be useful and function well for the people using it.
• venustatis means the beauty of a building - it should suit to its circles, delight people, and sometimes can be use as an icon of an era.

according to vitruvius, architect should fulfil each of these three attributes as well as possible.

Work of an Architect

The role of an architect is central to the design and implementation of the environtment in which people live. In order to obtain the skills and knowledge reguired to design, plan, and oversee a diverse range of projects, architects must go through extensive formal education, coupled with a requisite amount of professional practice.

The work of an architect is drawing upon mathematics, science, art, technology, social sciences, politics and history, and is often governed by the architect's personal approach of philosophy.

Vitruvius, the earliest known architectural theorist, states:

"Architecture is a science, arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning: by the help of which a judgement is formed of those works which are the result of other arts."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture