Trusses - low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces by Martin Harris Issue #23. When you strip away all the frills, building construction is nothing more than enclosing a volume of space to create a micro-climate for human activity.
You can call it architecture if you like, thus enlisting some notions of aesthetic superiority, but that doesn't change the basic function. You can fudge the issue by arguing that some buildings are very nearly solid (the Pyramids, for example) and have no internal space, or you can argue that monumental gates and colonnades which create no micro-climate are architecture; and maybe they are. But then, since there's no sharp line between black and white, you could argue that those two colors don't exist either. A better way to roof. Carr - Coolant Hose.