Wojciech Odrobina Carrick on Shannon- Modern architecture in our life

Architecture is nothing other than the art and technique of projecting, designing, building and modifying the human habitat ...

Architecture is nothing other than the art and technique of projecting, designing, building and modifying the human habitat. The etymology of the word "architecture" comes from the Greek superlative "arch", which means boss, authority or more than, and "tekton" which means builder.

 This means that the ancient Greeks already considered the architect as the head or director of construction and architecture as the technique or art of who carried out the project and directed the construction of buildings and structures. Even the word "techné" means creation, invention or art. From this word come the technical and tectonic words, the latter word that means constructive.

Of course, the importance of architecture in our lives goes back long before the Greeks, although they were the ones who coined the name with which we recognize architecture today.

Let's do for an instant the exercise of imagining what would have happened to humanity without the ability of man to build structures, buildings and urban centers. We would remain confined to caverns that were not intervened or built by man and that would serve as mere makeshift shelters with no capacity to extend or progress in buildings.