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Architecture

(comes from a latin word "architectura", from the Greek ,"arkitekton", ὰρχιτεκτονική – arkhitektonike, from ὰρχι chief or leader and Τεκτονική builder or carpenter) is the art and science of designing buildings and other physical structures.

Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and constructing space that reflects functional, social, and aesthetic considerations. It requires the manipulation and coordination of material, technology, light, and shadow. Architecture also encompasses the pragmatic aspects of realizing designed spaces, such as project planning, cost estimating and construction administration. A wider definition may comprise all design activity from the macro-level (urban design, landscape architecture) to the micro-level (construction details and furniture). In fact, architecture today may refer to the activity of designing any kind of system and is often used in the IT world.

Architectural works are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture/

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drafting

Precise graphical representation of a structure, machine, or its component parts that communicates the intent of a technical design to the fabricator (or the prospective buyer) of the product. Drawings may present the various aspects of an object's form, show the object projected in space, or explain how it is built. Drafting uses orthographic projection, in which the object is viewed along parallel lines that are perpendicular to the plane of the drawing. Orthographic drawings include top views (plans), flat front and side views (elevations), and cross-sectional views showing profile. Perspective drawing, which presents a realistic illusion of space, uses a horizon line and vanishing points to show how objects and spatial relationships might appear to the eye, including diminution of size and convergence of parallel lines. Drafting was done with precision instruments (T square or parallel rule, triangle, mechanical pens and pencils) until computerization revolutionized production methods in architectural and engineering offices.



Architecture

is both the process and product of planning, designing and constructing space that reflects functional, social, and aesthetic considerations. It requires the manipulation and coordination of material, technology, light, and shadow. Architecture also encompasses the pragmatic aspects of realizing designed spaces, such as project planning, cost estimating and construction administration. A wider definition may comprise all design activity from the macro-level (urban design, landscape architecture) to the micro-level (construction details and furniture). In fact, architecture today may refer to the activity of designing any kind of system and is often used in the IT world.
Architectural works are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.
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Free Hand Sketching

Freehand Sketching
Sketching is an important method for quickly and economically communicating your design ideas. Visualizing objects in three dimensions is aided by sketching.

Sketching is a process of creating a rough, preliminary drawing to represent the main features of a design, whether it is a manufactured product, a chemical process, or a structure. Commonly, sketches are produced freehand, with a minimum of instrument use. The tools used for sketching consist of pencil, eraser and paper. Software-based systems (e.g. AutoCAD®) may also be used, but paper and pencil are far more transportable, less costly, and are often close at hand.

Sketches take many forms, and vary in level of detail. The engineer determines the level of detail based on clarity and purpose of the sketch, as well as the intended audience. Sketches are important to record the fleeting thoughts associated with idea generation. Clarifying a technical detail can be aided through sketching. Explaining a complicated manufacturing or chemical conversion process can be visualized through use of a well-developed sketch.

Sketching is an important tool for communicating with other members of the design team and is most commonly used in the idea generation stage of the project. Sketching is often used to explore ideas, capturing mental images that result from the creative thinking process. Sketches are typically less detailed than design drawings, so the engineer is free to rapidly produce and capture ideas in a less restrictive form.

A freehand sketch is not a messy drawing, nor should a messy drawing be considered a freehand sketch. There are rules that apply to freehand sketching, just as rules apply to every other form of communication. Why? Recall the objectives for producing a freehand sketch in the first place (rapid, preliminary drawings to convey the main features of your design to other people). Secondly, recall that if you are investing the resources (your time, money, and your supervisor’s time) in recording a design idea, then it is best done correctly, the first time.

Sketching Tools

Pencils
Use of a medium hardness pencil lead (e.g., H, HB) is often best for sketching. Mechanical pencils retain a point better than wooden pencils, allowing greater control over the quality of the lines being drawn. If only a single pencil is used, a 0.5-mm lead thickness is the optimum choice. Thicker lines may be drawn with a 0.7-mm lead mechanical pencil, if emphasis is desired.

Eraser
Use an eraser only to correct a mistake in drawing. If you want to change the design, make a new sketch.

Paper
One might use plain bond paper for the greatest degree of flexibility. Square grid and isometric grid paper is helpful for drawing straight lines and keeping the dimensions in proportion to each other. Tracing paper placed over grid paper allows one to produce a freehand sketch without contending with visible lines in the final sketch.

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Different Perspective layouts

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An architectural drawing or architect's drawing is a technical drawing of a building (or building project) that falls within the definition of architecture. Architectural drawings are used by architects and others for a number of purposes: to develop a design idea into a coherent proposal, to communicate ideas and concepts, to convince clients of the merits of a design, to enable a building contractor to construct it, as a record of the completed work, and to make a record of a building that already exists. Architectural drawings are drawn according to a set of conventions, which include particular views (floor plan, section etc.), sheet sizes, units of measurement and scales, annotation and cross referencing. Conventionally, drawings were made in ink on paper or a similar material, and any copies required had to be laboriously made by hand.

landscape...

Different featured landscape

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Architectural Drafting Designs

Examples of cool house painted

An excellent design of houses that is painted in fabulous colors... it pretty cool! its look like realistic..

http://dornob.com/cool-colors-10-crazy-painted-houses-home-painting-jobs/

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" Importance of Architecture "

Here are the different insights coming from the different persons who talks about the importance of Arhitecture... amie.

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"But how is a taste in this beautiful art to be formed in our countrymen, unless we avail ourselves of every occasion when public buildings are to be erected, of presenting to them models for their study and imitation? . . . . the comfort of laying out the public money for something honourable, the satisfaction of seeing an object and proof of national good taste, and the regret and mortification of erecting a monument of our barbarism which will be loaded with execrations as long as it shall endure. . . . You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not ashamed, as its object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile them to the rest of the world, and procure them its praise." TJ to James Madison, September 20, 1785 DLC, ed. Julian P Boyd, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson 8:535.

"architecture is among the most important arts and it is desirable to introduce taste into an art which show [s?] so much," painting and sculpture are "too expensive for the state of wealth among us. It would be useless, therefore, and preposterous, for us to make outselves connoisseurs in those arts. They are worth seeing, but not studying." Notes on objects of attention for an American," ed. Julian P. Boyd The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 13, (1956), p. 269

"You are right in what you have thought and done as to the metopes of our Doric pavilion [Pavilion 1, UVA]. Those of the baths of Diocletian are all human faces and so are to be those of our Doric pavilion. But in my middle room at Poplar Forest I mean to mix the faces and ox-sculls, a fancy which I can indulge in my own case, altho in a public work I feel bound to follow authority strictly. The mitred ox-sculls for my room are for its inner angles." Thomas Jefferson to William Coffee July 10, 1822, MHI (Chambers, p. 146)

"Architecture is my delight, and putting up and pulling down one of my favorite amusements." Statement attributed to Jefferson in, Margaret Bayard Smith, A Winter in Washington (New York: 1824) 2:261

Architecture is a very good test of the true strength of a society, for the most valuable things in a human state are the irrevocable things—marriage, for instance. And architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable, because it is so difficult to get rid of. You can turn a picture with its face to the wall; it would be a nuisance to turn that Roman cathedral with its face to the wall. You can tear a poem to pieces; it is only in moments of very sincere emotion that you tear a town-hall to pieces.

G. K. Chesterton

(from Tremendous Trifles, 1909)

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