architecture

Overview architecture

Architecture combines design, engineering, and construction, engineering and assembling. Architecture is primarily concerned with the framework of buildings, are often regarded as symbols of civilization and as works of art. The ancient culture is often described with their architectural legacy.

“Architecture” can also be defined as under:
• A common word to characterize buildings and materialistic frameworks.
• The art and science of crafting and constructing material frameworks of buildings.
• The appearance and approach of drafting and creation of buildings materialistic frameworks.
• The usual procedure of an architect, where architecture means rendering or offering professional aid in association with the drafting and creation of buildings, or shaping the surroundings.
• The blueprints movement of the architect, from the macro-level (urban design, landscape architecture) to the    micro level (construction details and furniture).
• The term “Architecture” has been approved to depict the action of plotting one form of classification and is    regularly used in characterizing Information Technology.

In association to buildings, architecture has to look after the planning, designing, and assembling spaces and environments that reflect operative, mechanical, communal, environmental, artistic deliberation. This needs imaginative handling and arrangement of substantial, technical knowledge, light and shadow. Architecture also involves the logical process of realizing building designs inclusive of planning of time, cost estimation and building authority. As the authorization composed by the Architects, mainly drawings, plans and mechanical specifications, architecture describes the construction and/or act of a building or any other form of system that is to be or has been composed.

Study Option

  • Architecture
  • Building Technology
  • Interior Kitchen Design
  • Interior Design
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Interior Architecture
  • Landscape Design

Career Options

  • Architectural Technician
  • Architecture Professor
  • Architectural Theoretician
  • Architecture Critic
  • Architectural Conservator
  • Architecture Photographer
  • Architectural Engineer
  • Building Control Officer
  • Architectural Technologist
  • Building Inspector

Leading Institutions

  • Southern California Institute of Architecture, SCI-Arc (Los Angeles, California, USA)
  • Architectural Association, AA(London, England)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT(Massachusetts, USA)
  • The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Copenhagen, Denmark)
  • University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
  • Technical University Delft(Delft, the Netherlands)
  • ETH Zurich, DARCH (Zurich, Switzerland)
  • Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, IaaC(Barcelona, Spain)
  • The Glasgow School of Art(Glasgow, Scotland)
  • American University of Sharjah