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There is such an obvious trinity between being, time and space that one wonders why it even has to be mentioned. Of these the most curious aspect of being is space - essentially air, because we cannot live in unarticulated space. Space allows motion, the only way we are really conscious of time.
A good question to ask in trying to understand architecture is who invented the need to communicate and whether communication, i.e. 'language' in the world is not just aural but sensory, especially visual.
Beauty seems to be an inherited aspect of being with art, architecture, music and cinema. Tradition of culture determines how we think, how we would live and so who we are.
Architecture has three meanings: 1. The physical framework of being, 2. The art of making buildings that define the physical spaces made for living, 3. The principles and languages of construction as dictated by traditions.
Some cultures believe in the divine origin of human beings. If Creation includes language so that making a society is possible, why would it not include the knowledge of how to build in order to make architecture universally adorable, which by the way is an attribute of a civilised society that shares amongst its members - art expressing objective ideas of beauty.
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