THE STRUGGLE FOR EMINENCE BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE AND FURNITURE IN MEETING THE VICARIOUS AND PALPABLE NEEDS OF MAN

Abstract

This paper describes the development of architecture and furniture, tracing their primaeval beginnings and progressing to define each aspect (and particularly presenting architecture disambiguation) to help narrow the word 'architecture' to the needful genre to set in the course, the thesis of the paper. It draws upon the analogous and complementary aspects of each discipline which are aesthetics and functionalities, employing each aspect to cast the explanatory method of the study. Three themes were used to convey the analogous and complementary aspects of architecture and furniture, they are the functions of architecture, the hidden meaning of architecture and the architecture industry drawing parallels of these three aspects of the study against the functions of furniture, the hidden meaning of furniture and lastly the furniture industry. The tenuous boundaries that contrasted architecture and furniture which simultaneously revealed their similarities gave impetus that created the subtle emergence of the struggle for prominence that met and continues to meet the emotionality and tangibility senses of mankind through the course of history. The paper concludes with an emphasis on the consistent, salient and sustainable paths both architecture and furniture have evolved, particularly from the time when the desire and intent for raising shelter and having various forms of furniture for domestic existence sprang up continuing up until the present era.