What is Architecture?
The profession of designing buildings, open areas, communities, and other artificial constructions and environments, usually with some regard to aesthetic effect. Architecture often includes design or selection of furnishings and decorations, supervision of construction work, and the examination, restoration, or remodeling of existing buildings.
The profession of designing buildings, open areas, communities, and other artificial constructions and environments, usually with some regard to aesthetic effect. Architecture often includes design or selection of furnishings and decorations, supervision of construction work, and the examination, restoration, or remodeling of existing buildings.
Architecture provides a sense of place and support of all types of human activity. Architecture helps the man-made fit in harmony with the environment while promoting health and well-being, enriching lives aesthetically and spiritually, providing economic opportunities, and creating a legacy that reflects and symbolizes culture and traditions.
Architecture can have different meanings:
- any man-made building or structure, like a tower or monument
- a man-made building or structure that is important, large, or highly creative
- a carefully designed object, such as a chair, a spoon, or a tea kettle
- a design for a large area such as a city, town, park, or landscape
- the art or science of designing and building buildings, structures, objects, and outdoor spaces
- a building style, method, or process
- a plan for organizing space
- elegant engineering
- the planned design of any kind of system
- a systematic arrangement of information or ideas; the flow of information on a Web page