Purposes

There are places like that because some buildings are designed by someone without training, because they haven’t seen design as their job, or maybe because the developer just wants to sell the design quickly. That’s why they only think on limited problems
 * Urban design as a career **
 * Replay **
 * Why are so many places so badly designed? **

Sometimes they are different form the places we like because there is a client with needs the architect has to respond to. So the design will be done from these specifications and it will maybe turns out different from what the architect would like to.
 * Why are the places we are building so different from the places we like? **

People create this kind of environment because they have some needs, like shelter from other people, animals, nature and possible dangers, also because they need an area were they can feel comfortable. So, at the end, the result is a laborious space, that is able to satisfy all the needs a human could have
 * Purposes of architecture **
 * Replay **
 * Why do people create built environment of such of laboriousness? **

As many people could think, shelter is not the main function of architecture. Building environments, for an architect, includes establishing a place for living and creating a humanize area, safe from any danger. But it’s not just about practical purposes; it also has to be beautiful and artistic to be classify as architecture.
 * What are the possible purposes of architecture? **


 * Architects vs. urban planners **


 * Caracas’ architecture and Urban Planning **

Urban Planners and architects usually argue about their functions, architects say that urban planners are not qualified to solve aesthetics problems, and urban planners say that architects don’t take into account the context where the building will be placed in, designing buildings like isolated objects.

Urban planners and architects have something in common, both of them are designers and build environments, which should satisfy human needs and, at the same time, have to be beautiful and comfortable. As they have something in common, they also have differences like the scale they work with; architects design a building and urban planners design its context, and it means that they complement each other and, in my opinion, the best results come from there.

Architecture provides people a shelter from possible danger, but it’s not just that, architecture also follows some tendencies using different materials with meanings and with the function of expressing an idea the architect worked on, but always taking into account the building purpose and the client's specifications.

On the other hand, urban planners don't communicate ideas using materials, they analyze the site, and from there, create a place for many users and many different purposes. And they have to be able to express their ideas by the perfect distribution of the site. In the 80’s, Caracas had a good development of the spaces, the streets were not just for the cars, and they were also designed for the pedestrians, so it was pleasant to walk around the city. It offered a safe place to be in and the shelter that people needed to feel comfortable. Its buildings may not be a world’s hit, but they looked good and they satisfied citizen’s needs and they were very well developed for the purposes they were made for; in fact, most of the buildings that a Venezuelan architect should see as a model of good design were built in that time. Nowadays, most of the new buildings don’t fit in their context, and architects keep having the old ones as a good reference. media type="file" key="purposes podcast.wav"