An Architect's Dream

One clarification before I start: This is just my opinion as Architecture student, you can or cannot agree with me.

It's said that Architecture is the most artistic of the Engineers and the most Technic of the Arts, but what is really Architecture?

Architecture is everything and it's nothing at the same time. It emerges from the conjunction of many other Sciences, that's why it requires of Mathematics and Physics for the calculation of structures, Technical and Artistic Drawing to capture ideas on the paper, Computering as an useful tool for the presentation of the work, History to know the evolution of humanity and Architecture through the ages, Anthropology to see how it affects the society and human development, and to adjust more precisely the buildings to humans, and finally Philosophy to know the evolution of the human thinking.

The architect must know all the subjects to a greater or lesser extent to not fall on the Specialism, as if he/she is focused only on the architecture side of his works they wouldn't adapt to their client, because he designs housing for humans and he has to adapt to all the circumstances that surrounds him and also to his way of thinking and living. Thus through the Architecture it can be learnt what life was like at the time a building was built.

Furthermore, the Architecture is considered one of the seven Fine Arts, since it is capable of conditioning the behavior of the human in the space both physically and emotionally. Architecture must be more than a building where a man can hide from atmospheric changes, as being only that it would not be Architecture, but construction. Architecture should be a space suitable to thrill the person who lives there, able to create unique environments that stay in the memory of the person who sees them, a play of light and shadows projected by the architect's ideas and feelings, a whole world in an enclosed space.

The only thing that differentiates Architecture from construction is that "I don't know what" that makes a work becomes a work of Art. This perfect adaptation to the generating idea and all the circumstances that make the building into something that thrills generations who live or visit it for centuries. That thing which makes thousands of people travel miles everyday only to see it. That thing that makes a simple set of walls, windows and decks become a city icon.

According to Schopenhauer: "Architecture is frozen Music". And I think that's one of the most beautiful and perfect ways of describing Architecutre in a few words. It's that, frozen music, a magic and great sculpture, a habitable painting. It's a sweet piece of piano amazingly played in a Summer sunset. It's a game of lights dancing between the trees of an oak forest at night.

That is Architecture. It is not only Architecture, not Art, it is something that covers all the Sciences, thrilling and inviting someone to inhabit it, to feel it, to cover it.