The+Purposes+of+Architecture

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Architecture began as shelter, but is this the only purpose of architecture?
==== According to the reading "The Purposes of Architecture”, architecture goes beyond the role of creating refuges and modifying the microclimate. Architecture began as a solution to protect humans from the environment, but afterwards, its purposes became more numerous. At present, architecture not only provides protection to mankind, but has other functions such as communicating information; a building can represent individual or group identity, it also allows distinguishing spaces, hierarchical spaces, to differentiate between the sacred and the profane, men and women, public and private, habitable and uninhabitable. Another function of architecture is to reflect the power, status and privacy of some buildings. ====