Architecture + Design Magazine January 2015

History gives us very definitive pointers as to how architecture was perceived in the bygone days by the rulers/monarchs/governments then. Society believed in the small sentiments of life and looked upon architecture to explore the iconic. Look at the cathedrals, the palaces, forts, temples and such other structures of those days—they all were monumental in scale and very expressive in character. 

The urgency to build fast with advanced technology and wider range of material utility may have brought in a newer vocabulary in architecture, but architects and planners still design to make their buildings communicative and responsive.