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Mallia Assignment
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Architect
Teacher:
Class: 4
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Table of Content
Content Pages
Introduction 3
Description of Career 4
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Introduction
Architecture is defined as the art and science of designing buildings and structures. It’s also a
career path that uses three dimensional objects in order for activities to be carried out
efficiently. This research will show representations of shapes used by architects as well as the
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Description of Career
An architect is a person who plans, designs and reviews the construction of buildings. To
practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and
the space within the site surrounding the buildings that have human occupancy or use as their
principal purpose.
The architect, once hired by a client, is responsible for creating a design concept that both
meets the requirements of that client and provides a facility suitable to the required use. The
architect must meet with, and question, the client in order to ascertain all the requirements of
the planned project. Previously, architects employed drawings to illustrate and generate
design proposals. While conceptual sketches are still widely used by architects, computer
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Key skills for Architects
3. Excellent design and drafting skills and proficiency with computer aided designs.
4. A keen eye for detail as well as the ability to see the bigger picture of a project.
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Solid objects used by an Architect
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Importance of solid objects to an Architect
Form refers to the shape or configuration of a building. Form and its opposite, space,
constitute primary elements of architecture. Primary shapes, the circle, triangle, and square,
circle generates the sphere and cylinder, the triangle produces the cone and pyramid, and the
square forms the cube. Combinations of these platonic solids establish the basis for most
architectural shapes and forms. See Figs. 2 and 3. Recent advances in digital technology have
1. A volumetric shape contains solids, or exteriors and interiors. Some shapes are
formed through an additive process, while other shapes are conceptually subtracted
some cultures, while an American child's drawing of a house often depicts a square
shape with pitched roof—a shape that many houses do not possess in our culture.
From left to right: Fig. 1. Distinctive shape, Fig. 2. Cubic shape, Fig. 3.Cylindrical