What is Architecture?

 

Architecture is the art bringing thought and design out of our basic, human need for shelter. It attempts to improve life and further societal progress though manipulation of the built environment. Architecture has the ability to enlighten and to govern, to inspire awe, or terror. Through the built environment, we have conquered the world

With this comes more complex issues than the original need for protection from the elements, in today’s world, you’re hard pressed to find anywhere on this planet where man has not left a mark. With 1 in 5 homes in America vacant, abandoned for new contractor-built homes on cookie-cutter lots in the suburbs, both the urban city, with its plight and decay, and the suburb is suffering, architecture must once again come to society’s aid, and help restore balance to the environment through a Responsible Architecture, one that will enable decayed urban areas to once again.