[vc_row row_type=“row“ use_row_as_full_screen_section=“no“ type=“full_width“ angled_section=“no“ text_align=“left“ background_image_as_pattern=“without_pattern“ css_animation=““][vc_column width=“2/3″][vc_column_text]Architecture means a lot of things to different persons. But architecture is more then only following static laws and getting filled the empty space between houses in a already existing village. The big master of modern architecture Mies van der Rohe spoke about architecture as “the art of building”. He meant that only if architecture fulfills all the tasks she has to fulfill you can speak about the real identity of architecture as “the art of building”.
To grasp this idea of architecture being the art of building we can go back to the beginnings of our human race. How did we dwell? How looked our “houses” like? At the beginning caves were our home. We made us comfortable and felt fine inside there protected by the thick wall from nasty weather and enemies. This idea of a cave persists till nowadays when you look around the world: how many people wish to have an own house for them, their family. That is something like a “cave”, a shelter which is protection and identity at the same time.
Aha, and here we are what we expect of architecture nowadays: to be functional and to make identity possible- we want to feel “at home”. But what does a skyscraper with over 30 floors fulfill of that expectations? Well, to understand this complex contemporary situation we just have to look at the local zoos: how can a lion feel at home in a Swiss zoo where the clime and the natural landscape surrounding him are so completely different from those in which he feels at home? The lion’s identity and his personal “cave” lie somewhere in Africa.
We should try to fulfill the “art of building” not only for us human beings but we should let the animals living in their “architectural identity”. Skyscrapers of more then 30 floors and zoos are not representing “the art of building”.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=“30px“][social_share_list][/vc_column][vc_column width=“1/3″][/vc_column][/vc_row]