5000 Years of Architecture: A Journey Through Time

Historically speaking, architecture has a lengthy and complicated history that rivals the complexity of human history itself. The Neolithic period, roughly 10,000 years ago, could be considered the beginning of architecture, or it could just be the point in time when people stopped living in caves and began designing their homes. It is easy to think of architecture in terms of its visual attractiveness, yet this desire to construct an architectural artefact was fuelled by more than just the need for beauty. One of the most intriguing features of architecture is its ability to mirror the spirit of time in a way that may be even more significant than how we see it happen with art.
Architecture has proven to be many things: comfortable, elegant, modern, brutal, indexical, vernacular. In order to justify the parallelism between architectural history and human history, there is no better physical evidence of society change than architecture. It is possible to learn about the history of architecture by simply looking at the structures that were built in different locations at different times. Human actions were reflected in architecture, and this was made clearer by the constant effort to preserve some of the constructed history, while deciding to let the rest fade and ruin.