Primitive forms were basically simple organizations that emerged as direct responses to relatively simple, limited needs. This cannot be the case today as we are faced with a complex, rapidly changing society that requires responses to several kinds and layers of changing needs. Yet the environments we create can only be successful if they respond to these complex needs and the changes that take place in them. The typical static form that architecture has taken in the past does not satisfy the changing needs of our present, dynamic society. In an effort to see why this is the case, it will be necessary to explore and further define architecture and its relationship to need.