Architecture+and+Urban+Planning.

Architecture is one of the oldest professions that man has ever worked on. Especially when at first houses were meant to be a shelter. However, as time went by, man started to modify the earth and his surroundings, thus, this made man get more complex and as It did, his needs also started to become more complex. This made man create humble and plain houses to get a more conscious architecture that could adapt to different people who asked for a certain dynamic so the building could give the feeling of a home, of spirituality, social status, and many other concepts according to the kind of building the client’s needs and specifications. Nevertheless, yet again, the human being grew not only in complexity, but also in population and this meant that the cities started to crumble until they started to do the designing of how houses must be and how streets must go. However this wasn’t done for a professional alone, it was done in a reunion that used to bring together architects and other kinds of professionals to help analyze the relations of the new houses with the environment to a much deeper degree than architects were capable of doing alone. This brought many crushes of ideals because each professional has a particular way to reading the environment. So after a very log time they decided to get to a middle point so the “Urban planning” and the “Urban planners were born.

The Urban planning was partly born from the architecture, which implies that there are a lot of things in common between both of them, such as being able to think of 3 dimensions, think about spatiality and comfort that will last many, many years. Also, both of them have to create a feeling in their design, so as the architect creates what one individual wants for the constructions, the urban planner works with the big picture with the goal of creating a feeling of community and to improve the lives of lots of people. Urban planning and Architecture are not as simple as they may seem at first glance. Doing any of them requires a huge amount of knowledge, like religious, historical, geographical, socio-cultural, economics. They also must be able to have marketing abilities, after all, if the people that hired any of them were unable to portray their ideas, then no one would buy them. To be able to portray an idea is a must to being clean, meticulous, patient, speak clearly, being good at drawing, and having a good reading about what the client is asking.

Urban Planners must think that the “urban planning” they do must be flexible; this is because the city will keep growing in the future, and no one knows how it will change in the years to come. The architect doesn’t need to do that, since even if a person is likely to change on the pass of time they don’t usually modify a house that they are used to or that they call home. And if they do, they might just make modifications by removing a wall or two. The Architect in a smaller frame than the Urban Planer must think is the way the house that they build will affect their surroundings and how the surroundings will affect the house. If not it would be bad for all parts implied. The Urban Planners not only do that, but they also see how the streets and houses must be distributed and how the houses behave with other houses that are way beyond. Having this in common, it is not a surprise that the architects and urban planners tend to cross paths in work related matters, and have a similar way of thinking, but are their differences together, that allow them to be a complement with each other in creating the world the humanity knows nowadays.

In Venezuela there is a need to have more good architects, after all, the city is lacking good buildings that would improve the feeling of home and the beauty of the city. I also think that there is a need te get the citys designed by urban planers to prevent the car´s traffic that is making the city colapse with too much noise, and air polution.