Author: Hayder Haraty
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Do Architecture Students Sleep?
المقال باللغتين العربية والانكليزية Cited from Architecture Student Success, The Successful Archi Student’s Podcast / By Kyle Sinko From the number of memes and stories you hear from architecture students not sleeping, one should think that architecture students don’t sleep. I want to answer the question, do architecture students sleep? Architecture students are the most sleep-deprived majors in America. It’s […]
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Who is your inspiration?
المقال باللغتين العربية والإنكليزية In our life, many people inspire us, whether it is a member of your family, a friend, a famous figure, but the question is, who has inspired you the most? I often ask myself this question, and today I will try to explain this at least from my perspective. As an […]
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Walter Gropius’s University of Baghdad masterplan
والتر غروبيوس والمعماريين التعاونيين TAC | جامعة بغداد | بغداد – العراق | 1960 المصدر: مجلة © Architectural Record Feb. 1961 By Walter Gropius & The Architects Collaborative The University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq is the largest project undertaken by The Architects Collaborative (TAC) during Gropius lifetime. Aside from the opportunity for a holistic approach to answering […]
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Googie Architecture: The Vanishing Style of the Future
المقال باللغتين العربية والانكليزية Googie architecture is a type of futurist architecture influenced by car culture, jets, the Space Age, and the Atomic Age. It originated in Southern California with the Streamline Modern architecture of the 1930s, and was popular in the United States from roughly 1945 to the early 1970s. Googie-themed architecture was popular […]
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Can Architecture Student Work Before Graduation?
المقال باللغتين العربية والأنكليزية In our rapid lifestyle and the constant need to pay your tuition fees and to make extra money for your school supplements and software subscriptions. Architecture students find themselves in need to find a part-time job during architecture school time. It is one of the common questions I get asked, about […]
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Maath Alousi-Iraqi Architect
A student once approached me and asked if I thought he would become a good architect,” Alousi started. “I said, ‘How can I know? Only you can determine that. But, I will ask you one thing: do you read?’ And he responded by telling me he did not, and in fact, he had never been […]
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Palazzo Architecture Style
Palazzo style refers to an architectural style of the 19th and 20th centuries based upon the palazzi built by wealthy families of the Italian Renaissance. The term refers to the general shape, proportion and a cluster of characteristics, rather than a specific design; hence it is applied to buildings spanning a period of nearly two […]
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Kitchen Working Triangle
The kitchen work triangle is a concept used to determine efficient kitchen layouts that are both aesthetically pleasing and functional. The primary tasks in a home kitchen are carried out between the cook top, the sink and the refrigerator. According to the kitchen triangle rule, each side of the triangle should measure no less than four […]
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CCTV Headquarters
The CCTV Headquarters serves as the headquarters for China Central Television that was formerly at the old China Central Television Building located at 11 Fuxin Road some 15 km to the west. The tower is a 234-metre, 51-story skyscraper on East Third Ring Road, Guanghua Road in the Beijing Central Business District The CCTV Headquarters […]
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Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo
The Lou Ruvo Center, unlike many of Gehry’s projects, has combined high architecture with an even higher purpose. Where his other projects are works of art in themselves, the Ruvo Center marries the mind and spirit into a complex of forms. Within the seemingly overwhelming chaos of its events center lie recognizable forms and materials […]