Consider the part of world you are in right now, at this moment. Look around, observe the people using the spaces that encloses them. How are they navigating through? What are they doing? Where are they sitting?
Now imagine being in a completely different part all together. Something very different to yours. A place with people living a different lifestyle, speak a different language, eat different food. Do you imagine them sitting in the same surrounding as yours?
I bet not.
Architecture has always been about the people. Even when we were building for the gods or kings, it was about the people. A place for the people to worship, find solace. The great Pyramids were for the people. And though it might have influenced the lifestyle of the Egyptians, it is a different conversation all together.
Bottom line being, architecture defines the people who live in that era. It defines their lifestyle and the things they cared about the most.
And so architecture is not necessarily about buildings it is also about the people.
Now imagine being in a completely different part all together. Something very different to yours. A place with people living a different lifestyle, speak a different language, eat different food. Do you imagine them sitting in the same surrounding as yours?
I bet not.
Architecture has always been about the people. Even when we were building for the gods or kings, it was about the people. A place for the people to worship, find solace. The great Pyramids were for the people. And though it might have influenced the lifestyle of the Egyptians, it is a different conversation all together.
Bottom line being, architecture defines the people who live in that era. It defines their lifestyle and the things they cared about the most.
And so architecture is not necessarily about buildings it is also about the people.
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