Purposes

The purposes of architecture reply:

Well of course the basic purpose of any building is to be a shelter, after all, humans began to construct their homes and make them as strong as posible when they started to stay in the places they reached instead of being nomads, and they had to protect themselves from the natural and dangerous environment that surrounded, even in our times that idea is the same, for example, you're about to leave your home when it suddenly starts to rain, there's a 80% of chances that you will stay inside, why? because your instinc tells you that is safer inside, you rather wait for it to stop than going outside to get wet, even if you're late...

Urban disign as a career reply:

Well, it's true that some places in the city are really bad designed, specially the roads, but maybe if we look from the perpective of the urban planers that designed those places, we will find some answers. I think that the problem is that the human populatión grows too fast, many of this places we say are "bad designed" were calculated for a certain number of population, but the grafics that show the grow of the population, the movement of the mass and other variables, tend to be really unprecise. An example of this situation are the universities. They were calculeted for a max number of students, but today that number it's multiplied by five. Considering the facts, I belive that most of those places are way too good designed if they can still stand in our times, but only most of them, not all...