Role of Elements and Principles of Design in Architectural Design

Abstract

Architecture is the Art and Science of Designing and Constructing Buildings. Elements and Principles of design are used in architecture for designing buildings and other habitable environments. Architecture also consists of a dynamic and inseparable fusion of Art and technology. Aesthetics has a great role in Architecture which is linked by Elements and Principles of Design. We can define Aesthetics as the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of art, beauty and taste, with a view to establishing the meaning and validity of critical judgements concerning works of art. The Elements and Principles of Design are an extremely useful tool for understanding visual arrangement. There is a great role of Elements and Principles of Design in Architecture and Interior Design. It serves an important purpose of initiating creativity and thereby appreciation of art in many forms. Elements and Principles of Design are the components of Aesthetics. Before examining the basic elements of Aesthetics, it is necessary to understand something of the nature of seeing or observation. The act of seeing is simultaneously an act of organization. In looking at a piece of Architecture and Interior Design we see the principle visual qualities like mass, form, outline, emphasis, light, shade, texture, pattern etc. Each visual impression evokes in the observer a corresponding emotional reaction. The sum of these impressions creates an emotional state which an Architect must understand and anticipate in order succeeding as a designer. This paper illustratively demonstrates successive observations regarding Elements and Principles of Design and its influence on architectural design.