Architecture as thibking matter

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06 May 2009

Architecture as a Thinking Matter

Throughout the course of centuries , architecture was fairly regarded as the means to connect virtual imagination and reality and to convey a variety of impressions , opinions , and thoughts . To a large extent architecture has always been a matter of linking mental thinking to historical values and sociocultural differences . As a result architecture has turned into a separate thinking system , which not only balances thinking with expression but also reflects social and cultural features

that characterize different societies in the process of historical evolution

Objectively , architecture is the means to organize land in a way that would help societies convey certain social meanings (Thornberg Architectural forms reflect the principles of thinking and living to which societies keep . Architecture is the essential element of our daily performance , and as we are influenced by ecological , social , cultural or technological changes , these changes equally impact architecture That means that whenever society undergoes a strategic shift architecture cannot remain indifferent to these changes . Moreover architecture changes too , to be able to reflect the essence of these changes and to create a new system of relationships between land , mind and society . Certainly , the detailed analysis of architecture as a matter of thinking would be impossible without analyzing the works of philosophers and scholarly thinkers who write about intelligence and aesthetics which architecture should promote . Simultaneously , it is the design that makes architecture an instrument of aesthetic and linguistic expression . From the...