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Forms and Functions of Architecture.
Architecture is the art and the science of building. Without consideration of structural principles, materials, and social and economic requirements a building cannot take form, but unless aesthetic quality also is inherent in its form the building cannot be considered as a work of architecture.
From the very beginnings of architecture any skills, systems, and theories have been evolved for construction of the buildings that have housed nations and generations of men in all their essential activities, and writing on architecture is almost as old as writing itself. Books on the theory of architecture, on the art of building, and on aesthetic appearance of buildings exits in fair number. The oldest book we have that sets forth the principles upon which buildings should be designed and aims to guide the architect is the work of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, written in the first century B. C.
The historical background of twentieth-century architecture finds little place in this article, but that does not imply a denial of the value of our cultural heritage. Such a recognition of continuity does not imply repetition or imitation. Architecture is an art, its contemporary expression must be creative and consequently new. The heritage of the past cannot be ignored, but it must be expressed in contemporary terminology. The paradox of the coexistence of change and survival is evident in all phases of the human story. The philosophers, and historians have taken great pains to explain it. This paradox of change and repetition is clearly illustrated in any architectural style.
Nearly two thousand years ago the Roman architect Vitruvius listed three basic factors in architecture - convenience, strength and beauty. These three factors are always present and are always interrelated in the best structures. It is impossible for the true architect to thick of one of them without almost automatically considering the other two as well. Thus architectura

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