“Mimesis constitudes a fundamental substance for the comprehension of natural world and simultaneously it is an idea and practice of humanity for the comprehension of the environment.”
All human imitate each other, in order to develop, educate,stand critical towards reality, arouse the imaginary, create.
In this paper study we present thinkers from the antiquity up to today that formulated opinions relative with the significance, the practices and the important effects of imitation in the life of persons.
The development of our ecumenical heritage and our collective knowledge are transported by generation in generation via processes and contractings that use the imitation as generativeorigination.
The steps of human culture were assisted by the faculty of person to be institution of stimuli via a mimetic method.
a new approach for the importance of imitation is more extensively presented in the social and creative behaviors of persons, the theory memes,which was formulated in 1976 in the biologist Richard Dawkins , and names the products of imitation as autonomous “biological” entities transported via the persons through the human mind. Memes are not inherited through blood but via the communication, the customs, the language,the culture more generally, from the elder to the newer members of society.
Finally we display the effects of this theory in thedevelopment of architectural thought and practice according to the opinions of theorist of architecture, professor Nikos Saligkaros, and also certain thoughts for the attachment of architect Dimitri Pikioni with the Attica ground through the meme theory.
