Architecture, the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. The practice of architecture is employed to fulfill both practical and expressive requirements, and thus it serves both utilitarian and aesthetic ends.
What makes a piece of architecture great and wonderful? – Other than exhibiting durability, utility, and beauty, wonderful architecture should always reflect the cultural aspect of how it came into existence and transmit a rich set of values with it. When architecture embraces all these into its making, only then does it become truly wonderful.