Architecture (sage field)

Architecture is a sage field available to bards, enabling the planning, designing and constructing of buildings and other structures, for the purpose of housing, defense, durability, beauty and other benefits. The field covers every aspect of architecture, including parts and pieces of domestic living, the building of castles and temples, decoration, the use of materials and town planning.

The field includes the following sage studies:

• Architectural Aesthetics: the determination of cultural considerations involving the building’s significance, social purpose, beauty and empirical effect upon the viewer.
• Construction: the physical process of building structures, integrating surveying, excavation, masonry, carpentry, financial considerations, contracting and ongoing productivity of labour.
• Fortification: the art of creating durability on both a small and grand scale, to promote the protection of physical features, habitations, military operations and whole regions.
• Use of Building Materials: a knowledge of woods, stone and earths, along with their manipulation into ceramics and cement, that enables greater strength and flexibility in architectural design.

The field shares many sage abilities with the study of engineering.

See Bard Sage Abilities