What is architecture

Architecture word made from two parts (archi) that means supervisor and (tecton) that means maker. Architecture means giving the best solution, whether use from old solutions or find new solutions to achieve any goals. Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings and other physical structures. It is both the process and the product of designing and constructing spaces that reflect and functional, aesthetic and environmental considerations. Architecture requires the use of materials, technology, textures, light, and shadow. This definition, separate the architecture from design engineering. Architectural consequences are known as cultural, political and social symbols of a country. Historical civilizations are known from these architectural consequences at first. Structures like Takhteh Jamshid and Egyptian pyramids are important kind of these architectural consequences. In a general definition about architecture William Morris writes that: architecture includes the entire physical environment that surrounds human's life and until we are a little part of this civilized world we can't go out from this range because architecture is a set of reformations and changes that creates on the earth because of human's necessity. We can't give the liberty of all of our revenues in the architecture background to a small group of educated men and envoy them to search for us and then they discover and make the environment that we can live in and they deliver it to us wrought and we start living in. in fact, it's our responsibility to manage the correct regularity of making a structure on the earth. The general goal of modern architecture is that create a new habitation for human. This new habitation should compliance your necessity to recognition and makes a new linkage between human and the environment that he live in. Le Corbusier (one of the greatest architects in the history) wrote that: house's problem is the age's problem. Balance of society depends on this problem, the first responsibility of architecture in this renovation age, is revision in values and ingredients that former a house. All of the archaeological researches show that Iran's architecture background backs to the 7000 B.C. at that time up to now because of the religious reasons it has been developed. Iran's architecture has many traits that in comparison with the other countries architecture, has special values, values like suitable designing, exact computations, regard technical and scientific points in the structure, very high porticos, high pillars and many decoration things that every one refer to the glory of the Iran's architecture. Iran is a wide region and because of this geographical wideness and existence of several areas, Iran has a different variety of architecture styles and if we attention to it we find that even in a special geographical area we come vis-à-vis with variety in the style of making structures. America's architecture is a mixture of the other styles but it has own specialities. Architecture in history and culture of America had a special importance as presidents like Thomas Jefferson and Bill Clinton in designing structures that they wanted had some direct hands. Islamic architecture created because of Islamic culture, this kind of style appeared since the early years of appearance of Islam up to modern architecture. Islamic style is common in most of the Islamic countries and most of the mosques and holly shrines made by this style. But at all Iran's architecture is something special and most of the architects believe that this style has many traits that separate this kind of style from the others.
 
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