BERKELEY PRIZE COMPETITION ESSAY PARTICIPANT Ms Melissa L Shobe COUNTRY United States UNIVERISTY University of Idaho DEPARTMENT Art and Architecture MAJOR Architecture YEAR 3 FIRST DRAFT For architects to be committed to architecture as a social art form, four different principles must apply. A basic understanding on the history of architecture, a conceptual interaction with nature, the knowledge of all fields that intertwine with architecture and the way that society observes it. Historically speaking the Greeks established architecture as an aesthetic art with the Temple of Athena, the Romans progressed with grand, yet simplistic Aqueducts. From the Middle Ages of flying buttresses of Notre-Dame to to the Neo-Classicism of the Pantheon history has been committed to architecture as a social art. Frank Lloyd Wright's concept of interacting with nature holds true in the natural beauty of the Falling Water house. This flow of harmony and aesthetics in one is a true admiration and understanding of the environment as an architect uses guide lines of surrounding environment to incorporate into the structural design. Not just the knowledge of the architectural field alone is enough to be committed, the intermixing of all fields; the engineering calculations, the physical construction of structures, and appreciation of material limits. A great understanding of all these areas give structural designs a guide that all architects should achieve in the concept of Architecture is social art. Finally, to gather all of the principles together has the architect's objectives been envisioned by even one individual. If an architect has been truly committed to understand the principles and the concept of Architecture is a Social Art. Then all of the architects objectives should have guided to success. FIRST SOURCES