Compare to other arts, architecture is durable, static, more functional for daily life, and more
public. Frederick A. Horowitz7 noted that architecture may be the only art that human need for
survival. Fundamentally, the physical manifestations of architecture accommodate human activity.
However, architecture can promote endeavours, elicit responses, and communicate meaning.
This makes architecture being used to intensify ideas of nationhood, to express ethnic identities
and record ethnic histories, and to make political statement. Architecture may also be used as a
tool for negotiating or resisting something. Architecture, such as personal premises, is used to
express personal identity, social status, or identification with a particular group in society.8 This
includes giving voice from marginalised individuals, classes or social groups.9