Architecture is the form of design, plan, and construction, in general terms it is called the material of buildings and another physical form, like the saying Rome can’t be built in a day, it all started from there, even though architecture evolved from the first human of the world as their own shelter in documents the earliest form of architecture is found in Rome.
Like art, architecture is also in many forms and styles, like places, philosophy, and materials it also has many forms from ancient architecture style to futuristic architecture style it has a very long journey.
Architecture has many types according to country and time, let’s explore some of the core architecture types and their philosophy.
Organic Architecture
Falling Water by Frank Lloyd Wright
Organic architecture is a mature architecture type that connects humans with nature, the core philosophy and purpose of organic architecture is to keep humans in a harmonious state and nature which is around them, the first-ever organic architecture was established by the legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright and most of his work are the earliest form of organic architecture.
He loved the sense of nature within the architecture so that people live in peace and always have a touch of nature with them today most of the world’s leading architects are adapted to the organic architecture style because of the purpose it serves.
Neoclassical Architecture
Neoclassical architecture is of very old architectural style and it is also more effective than many architectural types even today, it became famous for its highly fancy decorations, neoclassical is rooted in ancient Greece and Rome, and it became popular for its texture and simplicity along, with neutral color as its base architecture style and giant domes at the entrance made it to adapt and to display the royal of the building.
Decorated sculptures are considered a major part of the neoclassical architecture style, even today western countries and some parts of American countries adapted to neoclassical architecture.
Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
Vernacular Architecture
This is like the DIY architecture style, rarely architects are involved in the vernacular architecture style, using all the available material around the building to construct it called vernacular architecture, every part of the world has its own way of vernacular architectural style, it is like language.
Modern Architecture
In the early ’20s, architecture adapted to the time and began to use modern materials like steel and glass for the architecture and also to survive the modern civilization, usage of steel and glass along with concrete cement made it look modern, stylish, and formal, by today most of the official architectures are adapted to the modern architecture all over the world.
Futuristic Architecture
Futuristic architecture is one of the fancy and mind-blooming architectural styles, when you get astonished by architecture it is called futuristic architecture, everybody needs something new which is never existed before, and futuristic architecture is just like that, something that has never been before.
Art, architecture, and design are the three core elements of architecture, it is not only the core functional elements of architecture but also for anything in this world, art is something that relates to all the things that are about to heal humans.
Our entire life revolves around art in many forms from what we hear to where we live everything is a fine-composed art.
ART
Art has a long history in civilization, it history about as early as when humans started a fire using stones, the earliest art forms are found as visual arts, the creation of paintings in rocks and drawing images in the sands are the earliest forms of art, even today the same visual art form is continuing in advanced and updated versions.
Anything that soothes the human mind and heart is art from music to drawing of a highly constructed building, the art then evolved into paintings with colors and then sculptures, rock paintings, and finally it evolved as digital paintings.
Some civilizations are even identified by their art form, ancient Greece is well known for its art and culture even today, the Europeans are well known for their achievement of art, and even today every person on earth admires their artwork, if we look back at the history there’s nothing but a pile of arts here and there, the efficiency of any civilization ever lived is determined by the art they left in the earth.
If we look deep into the way we live our life it evolves around art with or without our knowledge and the technology today helps us to connect with art more reliably than anywhere in history, it all started with that homo sapien who sketched rock using sharp-edged stones.
Art comes in many forms simply it just makes humans more creative by doing it again and again, if we are about to define art simply it is the form of expressing oneself, from kids starting artwork in school to paintings and sculptures protected in museum art have many forms and a long story to tell, today it attained digital level.
Art plays two major purposes self and motivation the self is an expression of oneself in many different forms, some people take the brush and just paint all day long without any purpose or without any motivation, they just express their opinions.
Another very important thing motivational art, as we can say art is of many purposes and forms even art is used as a political weapon, art used for communication, entertainment, politics, and social issues, in ancient Dadaism, surrealism and Russian constructivism used art as a political weapon in the early 20th century.
Today the core use of art is entertainment, cinema, music, and standup comedy and in that tall building in your city, art is there probably everywhere in the world around you.
Architecture
Architecture is the form of design, plan, and construction, in general terms it is called the material of buildings and another physical form, like the saying Rome can’t be built in a day, it all started from there, even though architecture evolved from the first human of the world as their own shelter in documents the earliest form of architecture is found in Rome.
Like art, architecture is also in many forms and styles, like places, philosophy, and materials it also has many forms from ancient architecture style to futuristic architecture style it has a very long journey.
Architecture has many types according to country and time, let’s explore some of the core architecture types and their philosophy:
Organic Architecture
Organic architecture is a mature architecture type that connects humans with nature, the core philosophy and purpose of organic architecture is to keep humans in a harmonious state and nature which is around them, the first-ever organic architecture is established by the legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright and most of his work are the earliest form of organic architecture.
He loved the sense of nature within the architecture so that people live in peace and always have a touch of nature with them today most of the world’s leading architects are adapted to the organic architecture style because of the purpose it serves.
Neoclassical Architecture
Neoclassical architecture is of very old architectural style and it is also more effective than many architecture types even today, it became famous for its highly fancy decorations, neoclassical is rooted in ancient Greece and Rome, and it became popular for its texture and simplicity along, with neutral color as its base architecture style and giant domes at the entrance made it to adapt and to display the royal of the building.
Decorated sculptures are considered as a major part of the neoclassical architecture style, even today western countries and some parts of American countries adapted to neoclassical architecture.
Vernacular Architecture
This is like the DIY architecture style, rarely architects are involved in the vernacular architecture style, using all the available material around the building to construct it called vernacular architecture, every part of the world has its own way of vernacular architectural style, it is like language.
Modern Architecture
In the early ’20s, architecture adapted to the time and began to use modern materials like steel and glass for the architecture and also to survive the modern civilization, usage of steel and glass along with concrete cement made it look modern, stylish, and formal, by today most of the official architectures are adapted to the modern architecture all over the world.
Futuristic Architecture
Futuristic architecture is one of the fancy and mind-blooming architecture styles, when you get astonished by architecture it is called futuristic architecture, everybody needs something new which is never existed before, futuristic architecture is just like that, something that has never before.
Design
Design is something that gives life to the architecture, and architecture of anything from buildings to material objects, from clothes to shoes everything is designed by someone who is a little more creative than the one who is using it.
Like any other field design also has its own style and philosophy, it also has several principle steps to begin, and to conclude, there are two major part of the design in architecture which is exterior and interior design.
Interior Design
Interior design involves a lot of creativity and things to be done in a proper way according to the design type chosen, interior design have as much more than twenty-plus types but has core concepts like simplicity, modern, country, fancy, ethnic, and chaos we can sum up all of the interior architecture design concepts into this.
In architecture interior design has a major role to play, no matter what the architecture outside is we are going to live on the inside, so it does matter more that the interior design process is done according to the user preference.
Decorations, the color of paint, antiques, and objects chosen along with the style of furniture define the interior, the core purpose of the interior is to make sure it spreads peace, calm, royal, minimalism, and other such things.
Exterior Design
Exterior design is also a major part of architecture as it defines the outcome, before the architectural revolution in the mid-19th century there was no such thing called interior design it was all defined by the one who owned the architecture but the exterior design had been always there from the beginning.
From placing trees in the right place to the texture of the lawn near the car parking everything defines the exterior of any building, a lot of processes are being done to make the exterior design perfect or adaptable for the house or building.
There is another such thing while designing like color psychology which defines the major impact of design, each color holds a unique property like boldness, positivity, calm and peace, negativity, and much more, the entire design process revolves around only two major things, choosing the right color and choosing the right object to be placed at the right place.
Art, architecture, and design are a concept that revolves one around another, these three things not only define our lifestyle but revolves around our entire life from each and everything, Art is the core function of the two without it the other two will not function.
To conclude all three in a very simplified way art is the beginning (birth), architecture is the body and design gives it life, all three are evolved by the time being and transformed into something which is adaptable and acceptable.
Conclusion
Art is something that we cannot live without, whatever we do, hear, or see is some form of art, architecture is just a step ahead of it the essential part of life rather than just to satisfy our soul, the design is all about what we see from color to the lines in it and much more.
While we’re speaking about modernism and modern architecture in Reddit and Quora, there is something that we’re forgetting in real-life of architecture.
Vernacular architecture is the name used to describe the architecture of self, building houses with all the available materials around the close proximity site, it uses energy efficiency in the surroundings, in early 1800’s the vernacular architecture became popular of building houses for themselves without the help of the architects, this type of architecture helps to build houses or other buildings according to the climate of the place.
We have different types of houses in the country, Bhutan has different houses of store all the needs of the family in the house, from cattle on the ground floor to crops on the upper floor, the same type followed in more parts of India about 80-100 years ago, this type of building houses which suits for the place of living is called vernacular architecture. Vernacular architecture is a result of factors like size, material, climate, skill, warehouses, bhuna houses, Assam-type houses, and Pawluk houses are some examples of vernacular architecture.
Today we’re buying cement and sand from hundreds and thousands of miles apart but the vernacular architecture is completely based on using materials like sand, wood, the stone which are available in the surroundings of the place.
We don’t need the same kind of houses in every climate like we build different types of houses in mountain regions and another type of house in non-mountain regions, this is vernacular architecture.
“Buildings without architecture”, is a common and simplified term to represent vernacular architecture, the people who live in mountain region knows what kind of houses they to survive in the place they are if they get a highly qualified architecture from somewhere who doesn’t live more than three days in summer occasion, we don’t get the type of house we need to survive in the region we live, this is the concept of vernacular architecture.
Apart from all the technical terms and simplified versions of building, vernacular architecture connects humans with the nature that surrounds them, still, some parts of the countryside have houses with vernacular architecture side, even before architecture became a business, this architecture without architects became famous, go around the countryside near you and the house will have at least one tree which seeded by the family itself and have enough spaces to live by.
If you see bamboo houses in the forest regions don’t go and ask them why don’t have concrete as it’ll last longer than bamboo, they don’t need cement, they do need the bamboo house because it is perfect for the place and climate where they live. When we see some kind of houses like house made of wood, our mind automatically travels to the snowy mountain regions like Kashmir or the Himalayas and tell us that wood houses are majorly used in cold mountain regions, this is the magic of vernacular architecture, the style and structure of the house itself tells at which part this kinds of houses build and used according to their regions and climate.
Everything in this world is created from nature and everything has connections to the nature we live in, some of the methods our ancestors used to have a major purpose and when we forget to follow them, we’re wrong.
The term vernacular in architecture is used to refer to the indigenous architectural style that belongs to a particular region or cultural origin. Vernacular architecture refers closely to the designs that are convenient for that particular region keeping a few key factors into consideration. The factors that are taken into consideration are the geographical topography, climatic conditions as well and how prone to disasters (the types of disasters as well) that particular region is. Another but also one of the most important factors that stand for consideration is the types of materials that are locally available in abundance.
Vernacularism of buildings is a very appreciated and upcoming form of architectural study. The understanding of a cultural and traditional style of construction is in many ways respecting the cultural, natural, and traditional heritage of any place. Not only that, vernacularism helps in understanding the psychological and societal structure of any person. One of the best aspects of vernacularism is the harmonious nature of such a construction system with nature, in that it is cost-effective, less straining on the environment, and most importantly, extremely practical.
Materials
It is widely believed that to learn architecture, one must be very thorough and true to the knowledge and understanding of one’s materials. This refers to the nature, purpose, and variation that a particular material serves when used during construction and the final condition that it reflects on the finished building. Materials are a very integral part of architecture and play a major role in any form of construction aiding to variety on many levels.
A good architect always keeps himself conscious of the materials and their properties before the inception of any design. This is a conscious and knowledgeable choice that every architect must undergo to keep a clear vision. At the start of any design, the understanding of the materials that one chooses to use or apply for the particular project must be a clear decision. Once that goes under the hammer, a definite understanding of the finished picture should always arise reflecting on the materials’ properties and nature.
