This week in class I felt that I learned so much! Something that I honestly never realized that each time period had such a unique style of architecture. What amazed me, and what I kept thinking to myself during class, is the way that all these time period have come together into one. When we looked at the pictures from various cities around the world I noticed how all the styles blend and have been built side by side or even onto another style entirely. This is such a huge part of our history. All of the people blending together, Their work and creations adding to one another's. To me it seems like a timeline that continuously grows trough people of different beliefs and background. People who all want to accomplish a different goal through their architecture. Architecture can have such an overpowering affect. It can bring us up and lift our spirits like the gothic style or it bring us down and humble us like the many earlier styles. It can also make us feel small and almost overwhelmed like the baroque style.

It is so interesting the way that architects built worker housing when the workers wanted to live in homes in the suburbs while the apartment style housing slowly became trendy and a fad of the wealthy. Oh the irony! The difference between comfort/function and trendy is so great. Everyone wants what is new and up to date until they live amongst it. The gap is so great but the people most always come back to what is comfort, what is home.