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Every person has different desires about the dream house. In the ultimate dream, someone will want perfection. There’s a little story about modern architecture to complement your inspiration about the dream house.

Katy Trail, residence accentuates contemporary excellence

According to Vitruvius in his book De Architectura, a good building should have a beauty / Aesthetics (Venustas), Strength (Firmitas), and Purpose / Function (Utilities). Architectural blend of the these three elements. The modern design has a character of a simple style, clean, functional, stylish, trendy up to date, and have a connection with modern lifestyle. In architecture, the modern lifestyle has its impact to the will to own simple building, clean, and functional as a symbol of modern spirit.

Here are some characters that match the style of modern architecture:

• It pays big attention to function, based on the activity pattern of the dweller or user
• It has a big attention to building materials that are used to bring the desired aesthetic
• It has the analogy of machine in the arrangement and development of space
• It avoid ornaments (if it is modern style), or use ornaments (if postmodern), or being called ‘modern ethnic architecture’, ‘modern Balinese architecture’, etc.
• It simple shape and ornamentation or vanishing ‘unnecesssary’d details as far as desired by the designer or the owner of the building

Summarized from various sources, while the images from Douglas Newby.