At its simplest,architecture is about defining the physical 1.SECC Conference Centre,Glasgow,Scotland space around us,for example,a room and the objects within it. Foster+Partners,1995-1997 This building has a strong profile on its site along It can be a house,a skyscraper or a series of buildings,or part the River Clyde in Glasgow.The centre has a curved of a master plan of a city.Whatever the scale of the building, aluminium roof,which looks much like the hard shell it evolves incrementally from concept sketch or drawing to of an armadillo,suggesting a strong,formal metaphor for the building's form and shape. inhabited space or building.Job No: CD0412-3 / Sammi 2nd Proof Title: Fund Architecture 2nd Edition (AVA) 76451_CTP_001-045GK_2Mar_.indd 7 Text 4/4/12 5:52 PM Black 1 1. SECC Conference Centre, Glasgow, Scotland Foster + Partners, 1995–1997 This building has a strong profile on its site along the River Clyde in Glasgow. The centre has a curved aluminium roof, which looks much like the hard shell of an armadillo, suggesting a strong, formal metaphor for the building’s form and shape. At its simplest, architecture is about defining the physical space around us, for example, a room and the objects within it. It can be a house, a skyscraper or a series of buildings, or part of a master plan of a city. Whatever the scale of the building, it evolves incrementally from concept sketch or drawing to inhabited space or building. Introduction Job No: CD0412-3 / Sammi 2nd Proof Title: Fund Architecture 2nd Edition (AVA) 76451_CTP_001-045GK_2Mar_.indd 7 4/4/12 5:52 PM