In a message dated 5/9/2009 7:33:36 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
such as whether classes like art and architecture are objective constructs standing alone aside from mind, and if any ordinary object found or built for somatic bodily use will thereby be held or deemed as architecture merely due to this fact _________________________________________ Frances, Architecture can be the plans, models, 3D views that allow us to conceptualize the work. They are products of the mind to be interpreted by the body/mind when existing in a concrete form. I can tell you that many architectural projects throughout history that were never built, but existed only in drawings and models have had major influences on other architects and architecture. It would be safe to say that most architectural projects are never realized but remain on the drawing boards - are they then not architecture? Considered one of the greatest modern architects, Le Corbusier's church is completed 45 years later, long after his death. _http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/28624.aspx_ (http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/28624.aspx) So architecture can be a mental construct that is documented in any way that attempts to delimit a potential concrete entity in the realm of architecture. Yes, I know, we have not defined clearly the realm of architecture. I suspect that the realm of architecture is more of a quantum field that mutates, expands, contracts at any given moment based on the sum total of all human interactions. Luis Fontanills Architect Miami/Dade Counties, Florida **************Remember Mom this Mother's Day! Find a florist near you now. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=florist&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000006)
