ARCHITECTURE DESIGN
Architecture is the art and science of designing
buildings and structures. A wider definition would include
within its scope the design of the total built environment,
from the macrolevel of town planning, urban design, and
landscape architecture to the microlevel of creating
furniture. Architectural design usually must address both
feasibility and cost for the builder, as well as function
and aesthetics for the user. Planned architecture often
manipulates space, volume, texture, light, shadow, or
abstract elements in order to achieve pleasing aesthetics.
This distinguishes it from applied science or engineering,
which usually concentrate more on the functional and
feasibility aspects of the design of constructions or
structures. In the field of building architecture, the
skills demanded of an architect range from the more
complex, such as for a hospital or a stadium, to the
apparently simpler, such as planning residential houses.
Many architectural works may be seen also as cultural and
political symbols, and/or works of art. The role of the
architect, though changing, has been central to the
successful (and sometimes less than successful) design and
implementation of pleasingly built environments in which
people live.
Architecture is also the art of designing the built
environment. Buildings, landscaping, and street designs may
be used to impart both functional as well as aesthetic
character to a project.
fonte: www.wikipedia.org
