What is Architecture?

Architecture, in a simple way, can be understood as the idealization of spaces for human living.

In its origin, with no precise date definition, it was dedicated to the search for spaces with protective characteristics against the harshest elements of nature, such as trees and natural caves. In a first phase, it consisted in the transformation of these same spaces and later in the reproduction of spaces with the same characteristics, in selected locations, using leaves, branches, trunks, and stones.

With the appearance of new materials, techniques, and ideas, the evolution was continuous. Historically, the the figure of the architect began in classical antiquity, with the first studies and treatises on architecture, being the work of Vitruvius the best known.

After a period of anonymity of the authors of architectural works, between the fall of the Roman Empire and the end of the Middle Ages, with the advent of the Renaissance, the author of the architectural work regains increasing importance until the institutional definition of our days.

Contemporary architecture is an activity that uses knowledge from a wide variety of disciplines integrating areas of study from the artistic, where architecture itself is inserted, to the exact and social sciences; in order to find the best solution to the objectives and needs of the space to be designed. Where, in a generic way, the best interconnection is sought in the dualities public/private space; form/function and aesthetics/comfort.