Human Existence without Architecture
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which
to place it, and I shall move the world.", must have thought a person
to change the world in what we see today. With passing years, architecture has
evolved human life to let us know the difference between living under a shelter
and living in a home. What if Rome had no Colosseum, no London
The London Bridge
Don't you find that often, when you walk into a room, you may
talk about how you find the qualities of the room to be somehow calming? That's
the power architecture holds in our life. A space may instill certain emotional
conditions. It's not just about an intellectual reading of architecture as a
cognitive rational process, but also about the emotive dimension.
We often hear " History is more lived than read ."
But how did people live back then when architecture itself was never quoted?
The answer is correct ' a shelter ' or a den may be, and may be further have
shifted to a clean and regular space but not a functional one. It is quite
unfair to say that architecture merely provides you with shelter or even walls.
But instead, it imparts empathy for how you see the world and how the world
lets you in.
For an instance, a wall is in a room, a room is in a
building. A building is a house
Which wall? Which room? Which building? Any clarity? Just how?
Architecture is not a wall or a building. It is THE wall and
THE building. It is the detail. Architecture fosters functionality and utility
in conjunction with aesthetics. There have always been extraordinary
connections between the natural world and the capacity for creativity in human
beings even when no world of architecture existed. "Nature inspires
creativity in a being by demanding visualization and the full use of the
senses. For given a chance, all this would just be a fantasy if we never knew
how the tree trunk would be used in many ways and not just as a nesting holder.
Architecture does not only set the living measure but almost
has given us a solution to live on another planet as well. Architecture turns
it over to see what lives on the unseen side of the world. It is what you call
functionality that defines the space.
Imagine you go to Santorini for a vacation but you see no
blues and whites or no Hagia
Sophia in Turkey anymore. We see each building reflecting the story of
the time, and how that iteration of culture wished to project itself to the
future. Without a doubt, architecture is a part of the culture- it has been
called the mother of all arts! It is certainly part of how we see ourselves and
part of how we see the world. The unique aspect of architecture is that in its
physical incarnation of buildings, it may last for hundreds and hundreds of
years. Without a doubt, buildings are accepted by communities and imbued with
emotions and the appreciation or disdain of people! They are included in the
identity of a people, city, or place. Like a story narrated, the evolution of
architecture since centuries from scribbling on paper to the feeling of
pragmatic utopia around us is incredible. Along with the logic behind the
science of building structures, architecture adds up to shaping the character
of who people are. Who knew how long was Rapunzel's hair if there were no
towers designed, or how Martians would have survived without their underground
colonies, the mysteries behind Hogwards' dynamic staircases, and the playful
color pops of
Harry Potter- Set design
The world has given us many democrats, extremists,
socialists, and the power of democracy which is for the people, of the people,
and by the people and so is architecture which is for the betterment of its
people, of the utopian world, and by the creative minds. Human life without architecture would be as
lifeless as architecture without humans. Boom! The London clock tower struck
and it's just a dream because thankfully we live in a world blessed with
architecture.
Architecture, the mightiest of all.
One could get lost
In all the little ways
You carry a character, and carry light,
And hold many stories in your being.
You are a golden thing.
In this heavy, heavy world
And everything feels new
When I look at you.
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