More than ever in its history, the world as a whole shows awareness of its uniqueness in all matters, both those concerning the given reality (nature) and the reality created by man and his social communities. At the same time, issues concerning each human individual, his family, local social communities and close associations are as important as the issues of larger social communities (states, regions) and the human population on a global world level. Namely, the global world is made up of components, so a serious attitude towards them is essential in order to build more complex systems from them. Powerful means of communication, both those that concern the physical movement of people and things (modern land, water and air communications) and those that transmit information (radio, television, internet) have enabled mass (and relatively cheap) communication of people, and modern means of information movement practically instantaneous (online) monitoring of events from any part of the world in any part of the world, including part of the space of the Universe. The great and universal question of the relationship between personal and collective, local (regional) and universal-world, current and all-time (...) was addressed by the author in the book „Great World Exhibitions. Architecture as a forerunner of the future“. The topic covered in this paper is related to the architecture study program, but also to a large number of other studies (sports, art, cultural history, sociology, public health protection, organizational sciences, economics, for example). This work is part of the content of the lecture on the course „Architecture as an Energy System“ which the author gave after the introduction (2003) of the „Bologna Process“ in the teaching at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Sarajevo.