The Architect

 

The architect is the person whom his ideas involve the life of each human being on earth. He fills the spaces that any man lives in, the school, the house, the hospital, the club, the office, airports, shopping malls, even prisons. Every time a person exits a building designed by an architects, he enters another building designed by another architect.

The architect forms the spaces within buildings and their shape from the outside, creating a route for the movement of the people and the persons using these buildings. For example, if a school design was good regarding natural lighting and ventilation with suitable heights for children’s age, this will have positive effect on their academic level and vice versa. In a hospital, if the design was uncomfortable for patients or doctors or the speed of medical service arrival to patients, this will lead to delayed healing and unsuccessful treatment for the patients. That is why the competence and experience of the architect designing any project is reflected directly on human societies. Furthermore, we can say that the architect is the one who creates civilization, development, and modernization of societies, because when a person visits any country for the first time, he immediately judges this country by looking at the design and coordination of its buildings and streets and airports before even socializing or having a single word with the citizens of that country.

The Edge

Let’s make all our next design project benefits from the technology that will make our buildings sustainable. Yes we are using glass and steel in designing modern buildings that are not suitable material in our hot countries, but adapting these sustainable ways by technology will enhance and promote the building and make all occupants feel comfortable and happy. What do you think about the building?? Do your like the building??Do you agree with me to use these sustainable way by technology despite using the steel and glass materials??

Design

In architecture design, is it wrong to represent the function of the building in the facade, 3d, or plans ?? Why if we want to design and we have a concept in our mind and we want to apply it in plans or 3d , instructors told us it is wrong way to represent the idea .?? I mean for example if I want to design zoo and make the building the shape of any animal either in plans or 3d they prevent us to do this, while most of the famous buildings that built by famous architects has a 3d that represents their ideas directly.?? for example, Kansas City Public Library

other examples :

 

 

 

Cubism

• Cubism was started at 1907 in Paris by Pablo Picasso & Georges Braque
• It was the first abstract style of modern art
• A Cubist painting ignores the traditions of perspective drawing and shows you many views of a subject at one time.
• In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint.
• The Cubist painters rejected the inherited concept that art should copy nature.
• Picasso began to glue printed images from the ‘real world’ onto the surface of his still life.

• I did one time a Cubism design, In my Design the mask shows that cubism was influenced by the African art such as some African masks shown in some Cubists paintings
• Cubism has two types: The Synthetic and The Analytical. So I have created this zigzag line to show the differences between these two types as follows:

1. Synthetic cubism: In this type, collage art was introduced into the paintings and lots of colors were used. So in my design, I used a lot of colors and added many colored drawings that resemble a collage, such as this half guitar, these squares, these blue curvy lines which represent the clouds, the colored straight lines that represent the style of the door. I also added dots that represent the style of the fabric.
2. Analytical Cubism: it is the type that shows the object as if it was broken into geometrical pieces and then reconstructed again using those circular, square or triangular pieces, but with limited colors or even one single color as in my design of this elephant painting which is made using the gray color scale. I also dissembled this elephant picture to gray squares, circles and triangles to show you how this type of Cubism is used to be made.

Now: 

Do you like this abstract art?

Do you feel confused?

what about that in most cases you are not able to understand not only what the painting messages, the painting itself it can not be read?

do you think it is like complicated puzzle game that need to be analysed and solved by intelligent person??

Is this art demolished the beauty of art? 

Do you think it helps us as architects to create concepts and idea of the design??

Do you feel like there are more than one person (not only one person) drew the same painting every time?

Reference: (n.d.). Retrieved November 13, 2015, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism

The Five Points

Whenever I hear or see the picture of “Le Corbusier” I just remember his five points of architecture and Villa Savoye and at the same time I ask myself why all architect don’t follow these points in designing such a building especially houses? In my point of view these five points make the building very efficient and comfortable to live in. Let me take the first point, elevating the house over pillars so the occupants will be separated from the vehicular movements. The second one which is the plans are free to design, it means the ability to add or remove partitions as you like. Third, the façade is free from the structure, so it gives the freedom to either keep the exterior walls or open them to make balconies. The fourth point is the ribbon window, so light can enter the house from all sides. Finally, having garden on the roof creates healthy environment in the house. Making these points will help in creating better habitat for the human being. So I hope we all use them in our design.

The Glass House

               

The Glass House, Built in 1949, was designed by Philip Johnson as his own residence. The house is an example of early use of industrial materials such as glass and steel in home design. The house is mostly hidden from the street, and the views of the landscape are its “wallpaper” (“I have very expensive wallpaper,” Johnson once said^””).

There are no curtains around the wall, no privacy, except the cylinder structure inside the house which is the bathroom. He made the house like this because he was homosexual and he wanted to show that he did not care about society because at that time it was unacceptable to be homosexual in the society.

What do you think about the house??

The house has a very simple design and structure that makes you comfortable to live in, it is the only house in the world where you can see the sunset and the moon rise at the same time while standing at the same place, that’s an impossibility in any other house in which you have to walk between rooms to see those effects. But the problem is, what about the privacy? Of course no one can stay one day in transparent house.

In addition, how could he live in this house even if he was homosexual? He obviously distorted the second Maslow’s hierarchy of needs which is safe, how did he feel safe in such a house? Because instinctively, every human being needs to be protected from outside which I think is missing in this house.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

References:

• (n.d.). Retrieved October 31, 2015, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow’s_hierarchy_of_needs
• (n.d.). Retrieved October 31, 2015, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Johnson
• AD Classics: The Glass House / Philip Johnson. (2010, May 16). Retrieved October 31, 2015, from http://www.archdaily.com/60259/ad-classics-the-glass-house-philip-johnson

The Monsters

Looking at most of Zaha Hadid’s projects is one of the reasons that make me uncomfortable and afraid, I don’t know why but because I always imagine that, one day, these structures will transform into monsters ( may be big snakes) that will eat the entire planet, I don’t know when but it is going to happen. Inside these monsters,,, sorry I mean buildings,,,, if I were there I would feel nothingness and isolationist , like if they were ghost houses That had been deserted by people. I don’t know, this is my opinion, waiting to know what your eyes will tell you about these structures.