The+Purpose+of+Architecture

The purpose of architecture is considered only as a shelter to the human activities, but the reality is far from this. Architecture is more than science, art and of course, more than a shelter. It’s important to understand that this profession tries to make places to live in a comfortable way, just like the urban design, that makes places for going through; it’s the art of making places. Both, architecture and urban palnning, try to satisfy all the needs of the people, Architecture more in the inner space (private life) and urban design, for the outer space (in a big scale). Architects make buildings like objects and do not give a real consideration to the context, unlike Urban Designers, that try to make an unification of the buildings to generate a successful place. The origin of architecture dates back to a long time, (since the needs of man for shelter) but, urban design is a rather new career, created approximately 25 years ago. Architecture is more than an object to develop a completely different life for a little group of people (for example: a family) whereas urban design tries to make places for everybody (included the family) and all the people that can pass through this place. Therefore, architecture and urban design are professions referred to the designing of places for living and enjoying, and for shelter of course, being this only an excuse, and not the principal goal.

In relation to Caracas, there is not a completely development of the urban design. This City has been built by architects thinking only about the buildings and not in the context. In fact, the urban environment has been created as a symbiosis between all the constructions (all of them different) that make the environment in something new. This context wasn’t designed by urban designers; it was created by the progressive constructions of buildings. This context in its majority is not a real urban design.

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