Category: Architecture
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City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952-1982
عربي المعرض المتنقل بعنوان مدينة السراب: عمارة بغداد من رايت الى فنتوري. يلقي هذا المعرض الضوء على المشاريع المعمارية التي جرى تصوّرها في بغداد في الخمسينيات والثمانينيات من القرن الماضي، أي في عهد الملك فيصل الثاني. حمل هذان العقدان أهمية تاريخية كبيرة للتاريخ المعماري للمدينة. فقد شهدا وجود وعمل بعض المهندسين المعماريين الأكثر تأثيراً في…
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Ahmed Al-Bahrani
Ahmed Al Bahrani studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad, graduating with a Diploma in Sculpture in 1988. He taught at the Baghdad Institute of Fine Arts between 1992 and 1994. In 1994, Al Bahrani left Iraq for political reasons moving to Amman, Jordan for a number of years. He later resided in…
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Things We Don’t Learn In An Architecture School
فبقدر الفائدة التي تلقيتها اثناء دراستي لهالتخصص ، اكتشفت انه كان ينقصني الكثير حتى اكون معماري حقيقي. بهذا الريل نستعرض بعض الصفات الي لازم تكتسبها في طريقك للنجاح. شاركونا ارائكم.If you haven’t checked the first part, go and watch it first, As much knowledge as I acquired while studying architecture, I realized that there are…
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Millard House
The Alice Millard house was Frank Lloyd Wright’s first “textile-block” house. The Alice Millard house was Frank Lloyd Wright’s first “textile-block” house, the term for the architect’s way of stacking decorative concrete blocks that were knitted together like fabric. Wright saw himself as “the weaver,” knitting together concrete blocks made locally from wooden molds. يعد…
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The Eames House Of Cards
The Eames ‘House of Cards’ was a diversely creative toy which, typical of the Eames’s designs, aimed at children and adults alike. The Eames House of Cards is a deck developed in 1952 that challenges players to build interlocking structures with large cards printed on both sides with collage elements like primitive art and scientific photography. Originally…
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Architecture and Cinema
المقال باللغتين العربية والانكليزية In this short article, we study a little about those two different fields and the connection between them. In fact, there is a strong relationship between them, as architecture has given the cinema a strong background. Architecture did not inspire films industry only, it has impacted many fields, but today we…
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Man-Made Structures
الموضوع باللغتين الانكليزية والعربية These monuments challenge expectations of what humans can construct, they even sometimes seem to defy gravity itself. These amazing structures seem too detailed, too complex, too intricate, or too big to have been built by people, particularly those made long ago before machines existed to aid in their creation. Yet the…
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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…