Architecture is the floorboard of buildings and structures. It is an artificial environment created by people in order to meet the needs of social life, using the material and technical means they have mastered and applying certain scientific laws, geomantic concepts and aesthetic laws. In order to clearly express usability, some classifications will distinguish buildings from non-building structures that people have not lived in for a long time. In addition, in order to avoid confusion, some architects deliberately divide the buildings whose appearance has been consciously created by people into "buildings".
It should be noted that sometimes buildings can be extended to include "non-building structures", such as bridges, electric towers and tunnels.
Significance of architecture
Architecture is divided into broad sense and narrow sense. Buildings in a broad sense refer to all things artificially built, including both houses and structures.
Buildings in a narrow sense refer to houses, excluding structures. A house refers to a space with a foundation, walls, roofs, doors and windows, which can shelter people from the wind and rain and allow people to live, work, study, entertain, store things or carry out other activities. Architecture-related majors refer to architecture in a narrow sense.
The best illustration of the architectural concept of architecture-related majors is Lao Tzu's sentence: "treat it as a device, and when it has nothing, it will be useful." Carve the family into a room, and when it has nothing, it has a room. "This is undoubtedly the clearest and most direct expression of the concept of narrow architecture.
Unlike buildings and structures, there is no internal space for people to use, and people generally do not directly engage in production and living activities, such as chimneys, water towers, bridges, dams, sculptures, etc.