An overview Trying to scrutinize whether architecture is being whirled by a person’s life and culture or vice versa. Because like architecture no other profession can change a person’s perspective…
Architecture, whether vernacular or modern, single-storey houses or high-rise apartment buildings, is everywhere. Today, humans are living in one architectural creation, working in another, and have studied in another. Their…
People throughout history have needed, just like any other animal, shelter. But people’s ability for abstract thought turned this need into something more significant, a space (a city, a house,…
Did you know that one of the leaders of the 9/11 World trade center Attack was an architect? Mohammed Atta, who crashed the first plane into the North Tower of…
“Engineers and builders may have the technical knowledge to assemble the parts of a building, but only the architect has the training and years of study in aesthetics and experience…
Architecture, in all its developmental stages, must have an origin in the earliest efforts for protecting their bodies against wild beasts, weather disruptions, human enemies, etc. The imagining of the…
Buildings are such beautiful and interesting things to look at especially if the process through which they come to be does not really concern the person looking at them. Before…
The bad architect is that one who “…is represented without eyes to indicate that it cannot understand the truth; without hands, to signify impotence; deprived of ears with which to…
Bricks and Mortar – What is architecture? If you had asked me this question 10 years ago after I had just finished reading my very first issue of Architectural Digest…
From the very beginning, architecture has contributed to the development of society. The structures built and spaces designed have created city skylines and given them their identities. With our great…
The current reality was not chosen, it is by someone else’s design. For most people, every road traversed, every building entered, thoughtfully designed, and constructed is a manifestation of someone…
Architectural Design – The tradition of architecture has been central to humanity’s development. As humans took their first steps into the world of permanent settlements, relying on sustenance farming for…