Spirit of Architecture
SPIRIT OF ARCHITECTURE
The quality of design affects the quality of our lives. Everything is designed and nothing happened by accident.
What is architecture? What is its function? What are the architectures roles to society? How it affects our lives? How it shapes the environment? These are some of the questions that architecture ought to answer.
Architecture is not just for sheltering, storing and building, it is something that helps us lifts our spirits. Good architecture should make us feel better about the world we live in, as it gives us the reason to live. Architect de Button once said that if want a functioning society we should have beautiful architecture.
For Oscar Niemeyer, architecture is providing art work that surprises, the type of building that is unique and doesnt repeat itself. Good architecture for him amazes people and lives a legacy to the world. He said that people are shaped by architecture as much as architecture is shaped by the people.
Architecture is one of the greatest arts, its the mother of all art, Charles Jencks said. Architects are like scouts, for they want to do well and they want to solve societys problem.
Architects of this age have they everydays concern. They want to make people have a good life, to provide nice places, to have a sweet escape for the people; their design to have no boundary, design that is all about the well-being, to make people feel good on the space they are in whether it is simple or a complex space.
For the designers of the best building in the world, architecture gives people memorable experiences, it is attuned to what is going outside, and it has the capacity to slowdown our lives. Architecture considers the view from the outside and the view from the inside to the outside as well. Architecture also considers religion, the beliefs of the people as it gives sense