1. Ignoring the Surroundings: Architects often fail to take into account the existing landscape and surroundings while designing a building, leading to a lack of harmony with the surrounding environment.
2. Overlooking Functionality: While designing, architectural harmony must balance both aesthetic appeal and functionality. Architects tend to focus too much on aesthetic appeal, leading to designs that lack practicality.
3. Ignoring the Site's History: A building's history plays a crucial role in its design and integration with its surroundings. Ignoring the site's history while designing can result in a jarring and disruptive building.
4. Focusing Too Much on Trendy Designs: Architects tend to focus too much on the latest design trends and forget that trends change with time. This can lead to a design that quickly becomes irrelevant and out of place.
5. Lack of Communication: Communication is key to achieving harmony in architecture. Architects who do not communicate with other stakeholders such as builders, interior designers or landscape architects about their design can disrupt harmony in the design.
6. Underestimating Materials: Excessive use of a single material can overwhelm a building’s design. An appropriate mix of materials must be balanced to add layers to the building's harmony.
7. Disregarding Proportions and Scale: Proportions and scale play a critical role in architectural harmony. Ignoring them can lead to designs that lack balance, overwhelming or too small based on its surroundings.
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