Architecture as a Link with Humanity

Of all the other forms of art, architecture has the unique feature of being directly associated with mankind. Through to Anderson‘s effort architecture as a “Mother of art” design the global referring to the human culture, socialization, religious and history to generate the new image. Over the centuries, the development of architecture has been based on the most part on the things that are most peculiar themes in fashion at the time. In the medieval times, religion was the aspect that dominated the world and buildings then represented the religious aspects, socio-cultural, political and other aspects of society. After the Renaissance, there was a change of mentality regarding architecture.

Society was being transformed and instead of only the former gothic replication of architecture, incorporating the novelist life style was the main objective to innovate architecture. Technology used to design buildings represented not only the lifestyle of the people, but incorporated also their religious affiliations, cultural background, history and other aspects of life. A mentality change of human to include simplicity in architecture was one main characteristic found in building at that time. Buildings such as villa Savoye by Le Corbusier was common. The villa Savoye produces a new vision of living. It allows to the human think differently about the place of their living. Try to create the world is the distinctive purpose of it to demonstrate 'the world’ does not arrange. The new image of creating an environment is the particular consequence of the Vila Savoye. Culture and history played little role in the design of building. One building could be in different places showing that a sense of place was meaningless in that time.  As technology and money brought power to many nations, high rise buildings and sky scrapers were built to show power. This evolved and brought about a rebirth of iconic buildings. Architecture is incorporated into human life in the form of an iconic building because it radiates special characteristics of the place and represents some unique features of its environment.

Therefore iconic buildings integrate an extraordinary relationship with the place and humanity. A good example for an iconic building that created a new image and represents its environment is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, which brought urban regeneration and economic stability to a formerly unpopular Bilbao.