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  • Essay / Architecture and Architecture Essay - 803

    It is through materials that ideas come to fruition. As raw materials of art, materials only provide atmosphere, they affect our bodies which are only intertwined with our soul through the architecture we breathe. According to Hegel, there is no spiritual meaning in buildings and this is not the spiritual subjectivity of art. the higher romantic arts which could be illustrated by architecture, but with characteristics with aspects of symbolic art. However, the undeniable fact that the architect designs with beliefs and experiences acquired during his life, gives the building attributes of subjectivity of its architect. By reading any written work we are slightly introduced into the world of its writer, in this way buildings can also function as a dialogue between the architect and its users, which must be read to understand the goals of the design . Architectural creation is not made from nothing and, consciously or unconsciously, the designer uses forms from a historical consciousness, not necessarily buildings from the past, which results in a dialogue between forms. Progressive forms can relate and communicate with their users through this dialogue, only spoken directly through the context in which they reside and their environment.