Marxist Position in Aesthetics of Architecture THERE is no
absolute life of man and similarly there is no "absolute
architecture5' of man. Man exists in reality, divided into
nationalities, classes and castes. Sometimes these distinctions
overlap and are often complex and continuously evolving.
Architecture thus becomes a setting, created by man to deal with
nature. This setting evolves itself with the vicissitudes of
life of human beings' Thus architecture becomes inseparable from
human societies. One of the great Renaissance architects,
Alberti, who was known as a "Complete Man"—musician, painter,
mathematician' scientist, athlete and an architect—said, that
between mathematics and architecture there was an aesthetic
relation. In contemplating on the relations between various
numbers and the relations between architectural parts we derive
a similar satisfaction and a similar sense of intrinsic order of
things. Architecture reflects the desires and responses
characteristic of human beings. It evokes feelings