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What is Architecture?


They say that architecture is based on building, like poetry is based on a prose. Some others define it like ‘nothing but ornament added to the building’, but it is more than that. If we consider the words of Vitruvius, he claims that architecture is a science involving much ‘discipline’, which means that a true artist doesn’t have to be good just at geometry or drawing, but also in music, literature and so on. The aesthetic sense, the love of beauty, didn’t show up just a century ago. It showed itself in the earliest human work, since the first human beings decorated their caves. Furthermore, many architects convinced themselves not to add embellishment to their buildings, because architecture does not consist in beautifying building, but in building beautifully, which is totally a different thing. And to sum up – Architecture is the poetry of construction.

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