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FUNCTIONS OF THE ARCHITECT:

a.- Practical requirements e.g. factories, and commercial buildings

1.-Expert in planning buildings b.- Better arrangements in economical and convinient manner.

2.-Understand practical requirements of the accommodation, factory and commercial buildings methods of building construction

3.-Appreciate importance of mechanization and industrial techniques, in areas such as: heating, lighting sanitation, hygiene, and ventilation.

4.-Knowledge of materials: characteristics, and effects: durability and appearance.

5.-Knowledge of perspective

6.-Interest in other areas such as fabric and appearance

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN =Architecture’s main concern

Visualizing the work in three dimensions: visualizing, section and elevation EXPRESSIVE AND BEAUTIFUL COMPOSITION.

Comprehension FINISH READING THE TEXT AND COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING EXERCISES Say whether the statements below are TRUE or FALSE. Justify your choice.

a.-Architects need to open their range of understanding to different areas related to their field. _T_

b.- The special order creative ability needed to be an architect can be acquired through training. __F__

c.- The social order has to be established by architecture since it is “the maker of civilized living. __F__ Architecture has always resulted from, not caused, the social order, and yet architecture is the maker of civilized living.

d.- Science is running rampant, and architectural design is forced to follow closely and correctly on its heel F

e.-Applied science should be the goal of architecture. __F__

Cohesive Ties

1..- What do the following words refer to in the text? (they are underlined) a.-P. 1, their lives of young people who are choosing the career b.-P.3, them materials students of architects will be use c.-P.3, they architect students d.-P.4, its_ architectural design e.-P.5, it a well-conceived and constructed structure

3.- Find a cause-effect relationship in the text. If science is today’s symbol as art was yesterday’s, then the architect is the natural bridge between the two.

4.- The main rhetoric function of this text is learn