Despite the examples in history of architecture, which rarely were connected with business or hardly found by financial initiatives, it seems hard to think of the same relationship today and the main reason is the drastic change of economic systems. Yuval Noah Harari in his book Sapiens: a brief history of humankind simply explains how the notion of money came into the world. He comprehensively draws the picture of an economic framework by introducing the power of imagination in human’s mind and the matter of trust which can run the wheels of the economy. In part of the book about barter, he writes: “An economy of favors and obligations doesn’t work when large numbers of strangers try to cooperate.”, “… barter is effective only when exchanging a limited range of products. It cannot form the basis for a complex economy.”[1] Which points to one of the reasons why there are no more examples of architecture regardless of financial concerns. In fact, architecture as a complex product, was not exchangeable because it was not easy to find out its value and the relative prices of dozens of commodities and exchange rates.

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