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Before a discussion about the relationship between architecture and social structure can take place there must be an understanding, or establishment of a common ground about the nature of architecture. Unlike any of the other arts, architecture is essential to the physical survival of the human race. Now more than ever, humanity is reliant on shelter in order to survive, not only because we have become accustomed to being protected from the elements, but also …

…the structures has more freedom than ever before. Architecture has made leaps and bounds due to this new market in need of structural definition. In conclusion, architecture and its relationship to culture and social implications is one of tandem operation. They do not, now or ever, exist separately; rather it is within the other that one finds definition. Architectural invention is an intrinsic result of the process of forming human culture and defining social order.