The term architecture can be used to mean a process, a profession or documentation.
Process, definition and profession[]
Process[]
As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures by a person or a machine, primarily to provide socially purposeful shelter.
Definition[]
This includes the design of the total built environment, from the macro level of how a building integrates with its surrounding man made landscape.
Profession[]
As a profession, architecture is the role of those persons or machines providing architectural services.
Documentation[]
As documentation, it is usually based on drawings and furnished.
Architects-duties[]
Architects have as their primary object providing for the spatial and shelter needs of people in groups of some kind-families, schools, churches, businesses etc.
The Architect[]
Profession and practice[]
Profession[]
Profession, is the practice of providing architectural services.
Practice[]
The practice of architecture includes the planning, designing and oversight of a building's construction by an architect. Architectural services typically address both feasibility and cost for the Construction/builder, as well as function and aesthetics for the user.
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