1.0 INTRO

Back in the early years, those who construct the great civilizations architectures are mostly referred to their predecessors. Their architectures are so original and unique due to their intention of incorporating the superlative of their past into their future, by using their own visions. In this way, they have managed to inculcate architectures as nothing less than a great symbol of the human betterment. From the beginning, we all know that architecture affects everyone. It touches our hearts, partly due to its scale and also partly on how it has managed to reveal to what kind of society we live. Primarily, architecture deliberates our feelings, behaviors, leisure, neighbors and public preferences in order to define the types of space which we live. However, the Information Age that we are living in has disparaged these essences of architectures, thus making the architectures now to be impotence, lack of the familiarity and traditional charm. Today, everything is about speed. Everything changes swiftly without us realizing that we are leaving behind all traditional ideas of shape, boundary and identity. Does this matter? Of course it does. As it is seen, architectures usually attract hostility first. Therefore, if these traditional ideas are being neglected, it is believed that the occupants would not be able to enjoy the space. If the purpose of architecture is not mend for people to enjoy and feel attached to the space, then there will be no advantage and point to voice up this following issue.

The death of architecture refers to the end of extravagant designs and big experiments. The ‘experiments’ here means those exotic projects that we see in the media. The media now serves as a platform for experiments. When these magazines and medias serves as the core of the experiments, these experiments stop to consider whether the architecture works in real life, where there is no longer a real objective. In short, when these architectural experiments mushrooms, as a result, the real architectural experiment will disappear. Besides, the introduction of science and technology has also lead to the death of architecture. People has gone too far and lost the essence (function, symbiotic between humankind with their identity and culture) of architecture in the process of praising to the god of technology. With these issues causing to the death of architecture, the effect of the future architecture is an unnecessary topic of debate.

A good architecture is determined and rated by how suitable a building is to fit into its specific activities. Besides, it should also suggest a well communication of ideas, feelings, and experience that will be able to raise the passion of users through its form. Good architecture will be able to bring us joy, excitement or despair, depends to the influences, values and skills that it brought. In addition, it is also serves as a memory to us, reminding us about our own collective past. Therefore, this idea of good architecture will be the solutions towards the death of architecture.

The objective of this dissertation is to make people aware of how critical our architecture today that is being monopoly not only by the technology, but also others causes such as the attitudes of the architects, designers and also the societies. These issues will be discussed in the later part of this dissertation. The architecture today is mostly soulless, exploring the aesthetic solely. Where has the architecture that can truly make use of our daily life gone? Therefore, the next part of this dissertation will be going back to the basic – ancient architectures, where architecture then is built not only for mere aesthetic yet functional, durable and be able to carry its own identity at the same time. These basic principles are created by the father of architecture – Vitruvius. From here, after being fully understood the importance of these principles and how it can help to improve and amend current architectures according to the pace of the technologies for the betterment of all humankind. The remaining part of the dissertation will be analyzing about the introspection of how vital are these values to us and how there are connecting and affecting us. This is also another important part of this dissertation because it need to convinced people to agree with the statement that architecture are dying if we do not put an effort in ‘listening’, understanding and putting our best foot forward in the action of acknowledging, saving and improving these architectural crisis. We all have to understand that this is not an individual task but a task that needs us, all together to vow to ourselves and our future generation in a mission of saving and achieving the resurrection of the death of architecture around the world.