Summary
Mari Hvattum: What is architecture?
"There is no comprehensive approach that would once and for all solve the question of what architecture is. We can try to understand a building from several different perspectives: the purpose for which it was built, the place where it was built, the materials and construction from which it was built, the skills of the architect or craftsman, the social context in which the building arose, or the way it is used and experienced by its occupants. On the one hand on the one hand, architecture is something quite concrete: walls, roofs and floors made of tangible and (probably) familiar materials. On the other hand, buildings, cities and landscapes are part of complicated and abstract logical entities that have to do with the way we live our lives and organize our society. Architecture encompasses everything - from inanimate matter to human life imbued with meaning, and precisely because of this range it is interesting and rather elusive." - Mari Hvattum
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