INTRODUCTION TO THE

COURSE
Architecture begins where Engineering ends

(WALTER GROPIUS)
DEFINITION OF ARCHITECTURE
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
FIRMITAS - STRENGTH
 UTILITAS - UTILITY
VENUSTAS - BEAUTY
DEFINITION OF ARCHITECTURE
DK CHING, A VISUAL DICTIONARY OF ARCHITECTURE

 The ART and SCIENCE of DESIGNing and CONSTRUCTing BUILDINGS.

ART - product or result of architectural work

SCIENCE - style or method of building characteristic of a people, place or
time
DESIGN - profession of designing buildings and other habitable
environments
CONSTRUCT - conscious act of forming things resulting in a unifying or
coherent structure
ANTHROPOMETRICS
BASIS OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
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PREPARED BY: ARCH. BHERLIE JOE T. LIBASTE, UAP, PIA, RMP