NOWADAYS MIRRORS ARE NOT THE SOURCE OF SEEING YOUR OWN REFLECTION BUT ALSO HAVING THEM IN DIFFERENT FORMS AS A DECOR AT YOUR HOME. THEY INCREASE THE RICHNESS AND MAKES THE SPACE LOOK MORE BIGGER .
HOUSE FORM AND CULTURE BY : AMOS RAPOPORT THE BOOK COMPILES OF THE EFFECTS OF THE CULTURES AND THE HOUSE FORM AND CULTURE PRESENTS CROSS- CULTURAL STUDIES OF DWELLINGS, BUILDINGS AND SETTLEMENTS WITHIN THE FIELDS OF ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING AND CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY. ABOUT THE AUTHOR AMOS RAPOPORT BORN ON 28 MARCH 1929, WARSAW. AN ARCHITECT AND ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF ENVIRONMENT-BEHAVIOR STUDIES (EBS). HE IS THE AUTHOR OF OVER 200 ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS IN THIS FIELD, INCLUDING BOOKS THAT HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING FRENCH, SPANISH, GERMAN, PERSIAN, JAPANESE, KOREAN AND CHINESE. HE HAS HELD HONORABLE AND VISITING POSITIONS IN MANY UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE GLOBE, IS PROFESSOR EMERITUS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE. HIS WORK HAS FOCUSED MAINLY ON THE ROLE OF CULTURAL VARIABLES, CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES, AND THEORY DEVELOPMENT AND SYNTHESIS. CHAPTER I : THE NATURE AND DEFINITION OF FIELD This chapter starts with intr
WHAT IS ARCHITECTURE ? Architecture has no particular definition because it just couldn’t be described in a few words or lines. It is very subjective as it varies from what architecture means to each individual. It is not something you just study or learn but you experience in the process. Architecture is a powerful combination of art, science and technology, history, etc. altogether. But it is also about many more things than that like people, culture, traditions, food, etc. I think architecture is something that we make for the people and experience the space they should have or will have in the building space. Each edge, corner or side should be able to connect to the people for whom it is going to be built for. The spaces should not just be made as usable but should be made like in order to make a special place in a person’s heart, which can be a balcony/gallery, a beautiful patio, even a corner of a room, etc. When a person feels connected to the space it starts to create a swee
A CITY IS NOT A TREE By Christopher Alexander ABOUT THE AUTHOR Christopher Wolfgang Alexander (born: 4th October 1936, in Vienna, Austria) is a widely influential British-American architect, design theorist, and currently a professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. As a theorist, teacher, author, practicing architect, and builder, Alexander has taken it upon himself to question everything, from construction details and the effects of color to the process by which a global species makes and remakes its environment and, beyond, to the objective bases of beauty itself. Questions like, what is an architect? What is a good building? Should architects strive for beauty in their work? What is beauty? Christopher Alexander has explored such fundamental questions in greater depth or breadth, or with greater persistence, clarity, and originality of thought. His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, including ur
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