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 * Definition of Architecture**

When I decided to study Architecture, I had no idea of what it was. Since then, I've been passing through a series of "aproachings" to its definition, and at every of them I think I've finally got it, but I'm always wrong, 'cause next comes another revelation. Now I know (or I think I know) that all I've been seeing are just pieces of the whole thing, and I'll always be discovering new and exciting clues about Architecture. This happens 'cause it is, at the same time, Science and Art, Tradition and Creation, Fiction and Reality.

(Barcelona)

Architecture is buildings and spaces of every human comunity. These buildings are the skin of that comunity, and they affect every moment of the lives of the people in there, as much as the people transform them. But Architecture is not only built environment, but ideas, that are the plastic expression of a concept, that depends of everything else. An idea that cannot come to reality is just Art, and a building that has'nt came from an idea is neither Architecture.

For us, yet mere students of Architecture, try to catch all these meanings and complexities at once may be disastrous, so let's leave aside all that stuff and get to action: let's make Architecture.

(Waterfall House: Frank Lloyd Wright)