Quick and Random Thoughts Over
I remember this literary piece when I was in college while taking the course , B.S. Architecture.
The credo singles out an Architect’s connection with nature, involving his visual and mental senses, attitudes, values, talent, and drive to pursue in constructing buildings.
In his vision, an architect can foresee what the building will look like in using the materials available from the immediate environment. Pieces of stuff like the stone and the clay are the basic requirements in almost all in constructing building structures. Stones are typically employed as structural components of building foundations, and mud-clay can be used directly in houses as wall components, which can be found in rural areas or communities rich in it.
Excellent quality of clays is suited for bricks for pavements while it other types are processed to manufacture tiles for architectural finishes such as floors and walls.
The sand has several uses either in structural or landscape design purposes. Usually, river sand is used to mix with the concrete. The benefit of sand is not only limited to construction, but walking barefoot and sensing it can give health benefits to the body.
Iron is one of the natural elements with unique physical and chemical properties. Iron has many uses in all industries, from domestic to industrial applications. Architects’ specification of durable materials is made from metal with iron as the core material. Household devices and equipment are also made from iron.
Regardless of his achievement, an architect shall always remain humble. He shall bear in mind that his abilities were developed through the guidance of his mentors, either in school or in an office where he discovered his potentials. In return, he shall share whatever knowledge to the younger generations.
It could not be denied that the teachings and the wisdom of mentors and professors echo in a student’s life, much more in times when particular matters call for a solution in his professional practice.
It takes real patience to see the moment when the project will be completed since it was started. Time, efforts, and resources are rendered to see to it that every detail is executed within the specifications in terms of materials, execution, and quality of finish.
With professional responsibility, the world’s beauty depends on the architect’s disposition of aesthetic composition and the elements on the scenic landscape of the space. Applying the universal principles of composition in his design, such as Unity, Proportion, Scale, Balance, Rhythm, Unity, and Contrast, makes a user feel good to experience the innate goodness of any space in this world.
Building shelter for the human body lets families continue to live and enjoy and share a meal in one roof. When human life is well protected, a building space filled with beauty creates positive energy.
This world is always under the threat of destruction. War, pandemic diseases, natural disasters like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, typhoons, believed as the effect of “global warming,” destroy the built and natural environment, including the loss of human lives.
Despite the calamities that bring down the aspirations of man, an architect will always come to help build world peace. In the end, the credo says,
“Even the whole world ravage and destroy May I Always Build. Let my work go beyond creed and color and nation, bridging the world of difference. Letting Fall to ruin the House of War and enlarging the House of Peace. While the breath of the GREAT ARCHITECT is in me, MAY I ALWAYS BUILD.”
