How Does Architecture Affect Social Life

“There is no doubt whatever about the influence of architecture and structure upon human character and action. We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.”

Winston Churchill, addressing the English Architectural Association, 1924

Architecture reaches beyond mere construction to a higher level of interactions. Along with its various facets, architecture creates an environment for the users to experience, thus influencing human behavior. This influence is not only on how people interact in given space and time, but also forms a historical understanding for subsequent generations and thus passes on. Architecture here becomes a power tool that stands responsible for manifestation of specific views

Architecture affecting social life is a very discernible phenomenon of rearrangement of the social stages on which we play our roles and a resulting change in our sense of “appropriate behavior”. Architecture develops and becomes differentiated as an aspect of culture. A society’s view of physical space, its transformation and interpretation are a part of its culture and it is this view that constitutes the foundation of

What is Architecture in Indian context?

As India is aiming to be a globalizing nation, it is creating an architectural landscape in the country which is being viewed and projected as new Indian identity. On the contrary, the actual landscape of architecture in India is highly pluralistic grounded in multiple realities, beliefs and aspirations across the diverse regions of the country with few strong reflections of changing Indian democratic government who again uses architecture as reformation and personal expression. Such diverse mix of buildings masked under a single cloth of globalization restricts society in India to exist in disparity.

According to R. Mehrotra (2011), Further discussing the practice of architecture in India has four different courses:

- practice of constructing global identities which manifest and give expression to the arrival, most often, the global capital;

- the practice of regionalism which responds to local resources and