Architecture aims to meet the total needs of human, spiritual, aesthetic, intellectual as well as practical. Architecture is therefore the tangible and enduring expression and record of a culture or civilization, in all its aspects. It is to be used unlike painting and sculpture. Architecture while it is the ART of building, is not a pure art. Architecture uses not only materials like wood, stone, steel and glass, but it also employs time and light as well to create space, both interior and exterior.
Buildings change with changes in the light.
Buildings change as we move toward them, around them, into and through them, in time. The bumbling ineffectual buffoon vs. the arrogant uncompromising visionary artist. Everybody's second choice of a profession. An Architect is also to some degree, an engineer, a sociologist, a technician as well as an educator. The Architect starts with the definition of the design problem which, as I stated last time, is defined by the questions asked.