"Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Think of our modern life. Can you imagine life without buildings, your houses? No, for humans, like any other organisms needed shelter to survive, to grow and develop from. While that may be obvious, the art of architecture is quite different. Frankly, anyone can build a one story shack without much thought put into it, but architecture is different. As Henry Wadsworth Longfellow asserts, architecture is an art. But it is more to it than just art and living; Architecture is engineering. How do skyscrapers withstand such height? It is a combination of science and design. To me, architecture is Art, Engineering and to an individual, a form of expression, like any other forms of art.
