A protected grouping of buildings is known as an historic district
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With enough exposure to architecture, anyone can become an expert. The secret is to experience buildings — not through magazines, books, lectures, or photographs but by soaking up the real thing, the physicality of space.
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Urban architecture, on the other hand, is designed in relationship to context, or existing structures and streets that surround new buildings.
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Many architects use topography as a starting point for their designs.
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Symmetry reflects the bilateral form of the human body
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Architects shape space by using solids, voids, scale, massing, proportion, rhythm, color, texture, and light.
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Winston Churchill once observed, people shape their buildings and afterwards their buildings shape them.
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Architecture is an important part of our lives, helping us shape the natural environment for human needs.
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architecture is dependent on structure and materials to create a visual language, each chapter explains the development of the construction technologies that made each style possible.
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architecture through its essential attributes — function, structure, and beauty