Any type of human function that an architect plans for is full of cause,shape,surely with the tendency of organism and adjustment to the environment,based on history and cultural meaning.
If we mention planning it is very important for an architect to meet with the activity purpose technique and site and also imagine these all together concretely coming as one.
We can say that ARCH has become as an inexact applied science.This is because there is a program that need to be followed and applied but it does not mean that it has become functional-arch since now days man had chopped it to bits. That;s why there it the need for the cultural,psychological knowledge
GOODMAN gives his examples to understand this in a better way:
He mentions PSYCHOTHERAPY :here is very important to understand the agenda of the therapy to plan the seating and for other architectural functions For example the Freudian session where the therapist should not be facing the patient,or the treatments of schizophrenics where is the opposite.
Another example that he mentions is the RELIGIOUS SERVICES :
1)THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PLAN:the choir is near the altar and in front of it is the congregation to which the priest turns to them time to time.
2)PROTESTANTS:they have a minister facing the congregation and he interprets a sacred act.
and many other religious services.
We know that in the primitive societies the way that the eating are was arranges was very different from today,they had a communal preparation of food where each would get his portion.But in the modern days,with the civilized people depending on the culture we have different arrangements such as convention banquet ,rounded table etc.
This functional planning is found also in the institutions of politics for example the American Senate where you have the chairman separated from the ambassadors and the public even further.
Another example that has proven through history are the theaters since the ancient Greece till the modern ones where their usage is flexible for several kind of plays.
CONCLUSION:
WHAT MAKES ARCHITECTURE AN ART AND NOT A CRAFT IS THE REFERENCE TO THE HUMANS NOT JUST CONCERNING THE AESTHETICS.THE IMPORTANCE THAT IT IS GIVEN TO THE UTILITY IT IS WHAT MAKES IT ESSENTIAL AND BEAUTIFUL.
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