Still vernacular architecture is the methodology used in majority of the buildings we experience in our day to day life.Earlier human used to live mostly in rural areas. Due to civilization and surplus in production economy started expanding resulting in urbanization and creating more and more urban areas, which grew very rapidly in some cases such as mohenjo daro in Indian subcontinent. For Egyptians and Mesopotamians architecture was an engagement with the divine and the supernatural. On the other hand for Persia architecture used to be exemplification for the power of the state. The evolution of architecture in the classical civilization took place from civic ideals. This was the architectural style in the civilization such as the Greek and the Roman.

Texts on Architecture started to be written in the reinassence period. Cannons mentioned in those texts were especially based on the religious architecture. E.g.,Vaastu shastra of ancient India, Manjusri vasthu vidya sastra of Sri Lanka, Kao Gong Ji of ancient China and Vitruvius. Architectural development took place in Asia along with different lines such as Europe Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist architecture each having different features and practices.

In the modern age architectures and engineers were separated unlike in classical or medieval period. Now architect started concentrating on aesthetics and humanist aspects. In 19th century formally training were much emphasis on beautiful drawing and not much on the contexts. Vernacular architecture started gaining popularity. It has become ornamental in the modern world.In modern times architecture is the needs of people.So, we can define architecture as an art or a science designing and building buildings, structures, objects and outdoor spaces.