User:Khalidahabubaker/sandbox

= Architecture Communications =

Architecture communications is the message or information that is conveyed by it's structural function or iconography of the architectural structure. Architectural buildings communicate responsibility to it's location, environmental surroundings, perception to it's users and communicate through the use of materials used to create the structure. We gain a message through architecture by our self-perspective. A person can distinguish between an industrial building, residential building or religious buildings by the known characteristics of the structure. For example - a residential house will convey a feeling or message of shelter or a place to live inside, where a factory warehouse will convey a message of working or manufacturing of some sort. It is an inevitable approach that although architecture structures cannot orally relay a message, information is received by civilization through the building structure itself.

Responsibility of Architecture Communication
A building has a responsibility to its location and its surrounding to show or communicate the right idea to society. Architecture is preconceived designed structures that are made to reflect aspects of economic, political and social conditions. For example, Washington D.C has many historical public building structures. Which include the White House, Lincoln Memorial and many others. These structures associate with political affairs and hold a responsibility of having a historical background that are kept up to society. From this responsibility, there wouldn't be a massive skyscraper building that takes away from the feel that the structures communicate. Structural building responsibilities go hand in hand with the environment that needs to compliment society and social status.

Architectural Communications uses the symbolic interactive theory. George Herbert Mead established that this theory, help to explain fundamental connections between architectural structures and human thought, emotions, and conduct. Buildings convey messages from the environment to the structure. An example of a downtown environment, a person is more likely to see high skyscrapers, condominiums and corporation buildings that may have modern designed architecture. A message of urban city environment is given. A residential three story house in a downtown environment would not flow in the architectural communication. George Herbert Mead poses in his theory that inanimate objects and physical environment reflect upon each other. There is an opportunity for one to have the perception of an environment that has symbolic meanings and that influence the communication of architecture. Environment compliments social status, by the way; the architecture development communicates. Buildings solidify society against time and its constant forces for change. On the contrary, architecture structures stabilize social status but also defenseless to wrecking balls or communication. Structural buildings are iconic in its environment. Cities such as Toronto are known for structural architecture like the CN Tower. This structure is known to people and when seen, hold a connotation of where it is represented. (A Urban City that is the Capital of Ontario). A widely known phrase by Winston Churchill reads, "We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us". Building structures communicate to its environment or clear surrounding and social status, it is an identification of how to perceive an area and what one is bound to think of when a site of structures placed in a location. Architectural communications employ its metaphorical understanding based on how its forms and structures are created.

Users in relation to Architecture Communications
With the communication of architecture to particular environments and the self-perception, a design also communicates to the users of the buildings. A primary function of why buildings are created are for people to make use of them and to be accessible to their needs =. Architectural structures connotate feelings, emotions, and cultures. Human interactions mainly take place in designed physical structural environments. From the constant usage of architectural buildings, these become social experiences and remembered by surrounding and how they replicate a feeling of the moment. These feelings and emotions portrayed from designed structures related to self and expressed as shared symbols and meaning for life.

Materials Communicate Messages from Architecture Structures
Aside from the environmental aspects and usability of architectural buildings, materials used to make these structures communicate messages to people of what is meant to be represented. Architecture is decorated with material that seen as a medium to communicate the information is holds. For instance, a modern architecture built with large glass windows conveys the connotation of movement that is supposed to be observed from the outside. This material is dynamic and active, inside and out. Trends according to geographical and social status change architectures appearances as time goes on. Materials used to construct buildings are on constant developmentation and can provide people with the distinction of what type of style is trying to be portrayed. (Proper materials are crucial in the innovation of the message communicated in architecture). The material used can also assign the role of being in its natural state, which heightens the architecture design and develops a perception of organic material. Materials are more than substance to an architectural structure, but an idea or message that used to relay information.