I love the WaY.

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Architecture: [ahr-ki-tek-cher] noun

1) the ability to create a sence of place that are meaningful and a place of quality and character that depends entirely on the ability to define space with buildings thus employing the vocabularies, grammars, syntaxes, rhythems and patterns of architecure in order to inform us of “who we are”.

2) Social thought-  dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life and its the physical manefestation of the common good.

-my definitions!

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Yes, it is one of my passions. Trust. Ask anyone whos known me for some time, I was always torn between Architecture or being a Doctor. I know it is two very polar ideals yet, I still am despite my declared major of BioChem. Its just when I look at buildings I examine the detail, the craftsmanship, the material, the aesthetics. Think about the whole collaboration and preparation just to get this building designed, not to even mention the construction and the man hours put in. I just really appreciate it.

Compare the first picture and contrast that with the other two. Which would you rather live in? I think the answer is pretty obvious.

But promnently in America, we as citiznes, experience the degration of the public realm. And when you do that, you will automatically degrade the quality of your civic life and the character of all the enactments of you public life and communal life that takes place there.  The ability to define space means to create places worth caring about and this comes from a body of culture that we call the cuture of civic design; combo if knowledge, method, skill and principle that were all thrown out basically after WWII and has not been implied to philosophy as it used to be. It is this architecture that is to inform us where we are geographically and where we are in our culture.

So what do you think?

Do you think that architecture as a dying profession?

Where is the passion of design now in todays modern cities of America?

Do people really care now a days of how their environment feels?

Is architecture restricted due to economical reasons, I.E. to construct something with a minimal budget just to have an industrial building?

Does anyone else care about the degradation of design? Wont that effect our culture and how we see art?