SnokenKeekaGuardArchitecture is supposed to be art. The Greeks knew this 2,500 years ago.
pelespiritThat’s a little complicated because these were maidens for Artemis. So yeah, they believed in holy art within buildings.
The Greek term karyatides literally means “maidens of Karyai”, an ancient town on the Peloponnese. Karyai had a temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis in her aspect of Artemis Karyatis: “As Karyatis she rejoiced in the dances of the nut-tree village of Karyai, those Karyatides, who in their ecstatic round-dance carried on their heads baskets of live reeds, as if they were dancing plants”
HootinNHollerinWas lucky enough to see that in person
Eh… Architecture can be art…
But first and foremost, architecture should be aiming to make comfortable, convenient, and useful places for people to live or do things.
Art is a nice bonus (if budget and time constraints allow), but it’s perfectly valid to build ugly utilitarian buildings if those buildings accomplish what you need them to do.
Which, unlike what the meme implies, is something the ancient Greeks knew. Yeah, they had some beautiful architecture, but they also had a lot that’s purely functional.
MinnesotaGoddamwe can have both and i plan for the Cats, Weed, And Hatsunes Miku Palace 3000 to be exactly what it describes.
Absolutely agree that architecture has to be functional and convenient. But we shouldn’t be so fast to exclude aesthetics. It plays a major part in well-being. Of course, it’s more important to have housing at all. However, comfortability is not restricted to usability only but should also tickle our neurons.
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