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Architecture is a language in which buildings are conceptualised, built and leave a legacy for both the people using the buildings and the future.

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He believed that architecture could convey information metaphorically, through its surface decoration, and he likened buildings to books – he referred to St Mark’s as “a vast illuminated missal".

And this admission is interesting for, when Ruskin calls upon the architect “to render the architecture of the day historical”, we perceive that he is addressing an issue more fundamental than style, which is the potential for architecture to say something through its antecedents, rather than simply to describe its own structure and function.

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The purpose of architecture according to Ruskin is to admire and take pleasure in architecture, as it represents humanity's intelligence and overcoming physical difficulty. 

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The purpose of architecture according to Ruskin is to admire and take pleasure in architecture, as it represents humanity's intelligence and overcoming physical difficulty. 

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t serves society and improves quality of life. It’s a physical manifestation of the society’s wishes to be civilisedpublic domain being the obvious place which encapsulates this as buildings, alongside being art and science, are part of the public domain.

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As long as you have the correct purpose and pour your whole heart into it, building a house to the client will make a great building. The purpose is therefore to create the best possible building

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the purpose of architecture to Ruskin is twofold; it may be all well and good to design a beautiful building but without any sort of intention or consideration for the actual sensation of being in the building - it is meaningless to create a building.

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the purpose of architecture to Ruskin is twofold; it may be all well and good to design a beautiful building but without any sort of intention or consideration for the actual sensation of being in the building - it is meaningless to create a building.

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I feel the purpose of architecture for Ruskin is to deliver an all rounded design for a building that has been truly thought about during the process. It has been built with thought, care and through the knowledge of many crafts people.

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To Ruskin  Architecture is “signs of man's own good work; secondly, the expression of man's delight in better work than his own.” It is a temple of sort to the creativity of man and the admiration of said work.

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For Ruskin architecture had reason for the purpose of architecture such as,  that it act well, and do the things it was intended to do, that it speaks well and sat the things bit was intended to say, that it look well and pleases us by its presence.

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For Ruskin architecture had reason for the purpose of architecture such as,  that it act well, and do the things it was intended to do, that it speaks well and sat the things bit was intended to say, that it look well and pleases us by its presence.

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To create something functional with a purpose, which is both practical and beautiful. Needs to tell as story / narrative in some way.

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A reflection of the love, thinking, construction of people at a point in time, to fufill the needs of others and to create something they can enjoy.

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Architecture needs to solve an underlying issue

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I think for him it is about pure function - perhaps that a buildings purpose and effectivness at carrying that out is what makes it bueatiful. As well as architects not being selfish or building for their own good.

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For Ruskin the purpose of architecture is that the buildings communicate greatly with the user. This may be in many forms, such as providing the essential needs for the user and also that the presence of the building pleases us

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Create built spaces which are pleasure to be in (function well), which tell a story and pleasing to look at.

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Create built spaces which are pleasure to be in (function well), which tell a story and pleasing to look at.

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The main purpose for architecture from Ruskin is functionality. He wants a building to have a purpose and for that purpose to be fulfilled before any artistic values are applied

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“To permit the free play of human natural instincts.(...) and ti remove the artificial reastrain that don’t allow this”

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The purpose of architecture is to understand the surrounding environment and build something that allows the community to develop and prosper. Also to make sure that it fulfills the criteria for the designer in TS acting, speaking and looking. 

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The purpose of architecture is to understand the surrounding environment and build something that allows the community to develop and prosper. Also to make sure that it fulfills the criteria for the designer in TS acting, speaking and looking. 

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For a building to speak, act and talk