Purposes

The Purpose of Being an Architect Architecture began as shelter, but is it the only purpose of architecture? Why do people create built environments of such elaborateness? What the possible purposes of architecture?

Architecture could have began only as a shelter, prividing a refuge for the human survival, but nowadays it has so many purposes like to provide settings for certain activies, remind people of waht these activities are, signify power, status or privacy, express and support consmological beliefs, communicate information or to separate domain and differentiate. As we can see provide a shelter is not the only purpose if architecture and in fact people create environments to shelter people and their activities and possessions from, to establish place, to create a humanized and safe area, to stress social identity and indicate status and so other purposes.

 The Purpose of Being an Unban Planner Why are so many places so badly designed? What should urban designers be concerned with? What's the purpose of urban planning?

 An urban planner arranges the life in a city or town, they do places in an artist way. Some places are so badly designed, if we could say designed, because it was handle by someone with no design training and it is crucial that the designers be concerned not only with land use, he/she also has to consider the physical form of development.

﻿At the beginning, architecture had the only purpose to protect human against weather and dangers. After a while, this purpose changed and developed into new areas and meanings. Unlike the urban planning that was created and it still has the purpose of organizing life and movement in cities and towns offering as much comfort as possible. Although architecture began as a human need of surviving, it gradually has been developing and tanking different purposes according to the human needs, such as protection from extreme whether like snow, heat waves and rain. Since a long time ago, architecture had taken a religious, spiritual and beliefs character as we can see the Parthenon in Athens, the pyramids of Egypt or churches where worship of the different beliefs of people. In the same way, architecture has been developing into many other areas, but always around the human in order to provide a more comfortable life. In the same way, urban planning has focused on the development of the city or town to give the most comfortable way to travel or walk through it. Unlike the architect, the urban planner doesn’t arrange spaces in an individual person scale. He orders a large space delimiting it with streets, parks and builds in a larger scale, and both work together in order to offer a better quality of life to people. If we analyze a city like Caracas we can say that there are a few places where both architecture and urban planning work together very well, that is the case of Centro Comercial San Ignacio which has a very interesting architecture and an excellent urban plan that let us enjoy the space. But the biggest problem lies in the lack of urban planning for most of the city and that is why people can’t have the quality of life they wished and deserve.

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