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Architecture began since the beginning of man. Have you ever driven by a building and thought, who would even think to create that? Architecture is one of the oldest professions in the world. Engineering goes back further than the great pyramids. Kings, Rulers, and people will always want something new to be designed and seen built. Architects are not artists. Architects always as a profession to look at the demands of the people at large, architects have to address building technology and programming. Architecture has been around for a long time.
Architecture is always evolving in materials and construction methods out there. Before people recorded history, and time, people designed and made mud mounds, stone circles, megaliths (large stones), and structures that often puzzle modern-day archaeologists. Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians Architects made beautiful designs for the structures that you see today and designs for structures that have been destroyed. Gilbert Laing Meason born July 3, 1769, He was a Scottish man. Gilbert Laing Meason is said “to be the man who invented the term landscape architecture” (“Gilbert Laing Meason”). Gilbert didn’t know his book The Landscape Architecture of the Great Painters of Italy would be read by John Claudius Loudon, said to be "the most prolific garden author of any age (“Gilbert Laing Meason”), and that he would change history and make a new field of architecture worldwide. Loudon took up the term and passed it to Andrew Jackson Downing, who passed it to Frederick Law Olmsted (“Gilbert Laing Meason”). Training is very important part of being an architect.
Education is very important you need an accredited degree from a NAAB (National Architectural Accrediting Board) approved program. The ...

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