section_path: Visual arts/Architecture
section_name: Architecture
paragraph_text: Architecture
  
  Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. A wider definition would include the design of the built environment, from the macro level of urban planning, urban design, and landscape architecture, to the micro level of creating furniture. The word architecture comes from the Latin architectūra, from architectus "master builder, director of works." Architectural design usually must address feasibility and cost for the builder, as well as function and aesthetics for the user.
  
  In modern usage, architecture is the art and discipline of creating or inferring an implied or apparent plan for a complex object or system. Some types of architecture manipulate space, volume, texture, light, shadow, or abstract elements, to achieve pleasing aesthetics. Architectural works may be seen as cultural and political symbols, or works of art. The role of the architect, though changing, has been central to the design and implementation of pleasingly built environments, in which people live.