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I have been so busy most of my career selling real estate that sometimes I don’t see the big picture any more. So I have spent a little time remembering the roots of my job. I’ve been looking at where the idea of the architecture that I sell came about.

According to Wikipedia, building first started out of the dynamics between needs (shelter, security, worship) and means (available building materials and skills).

At camp as a youth, we build a rudimentary shelter in the woods. It was made of stripped branches about the width of my wrist at the time and smaller branches covered with leaves. We would have gotten wet had it rained, but it would have been some protection from the insects and the squirrels. We were taught important information about needs and means, but we didn’t know it then.

As human culture developed and knowledge began to be formalized through oral traditions and practices, building became a craft and “architecture” is the name given to the most highly formalized and respected versions of that craft.

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