Text Box: Ashraf Salama, Ph.D.                                          

 

 

                                                                                                                                          Text Box: Redefining Architecture ... Again !

 

 

                                                                                                  Text Box: - A building must meet the following standards to qualify as architecture: It must conveniently   serve the purpose for which it was built, it must be structurally sound, and it must be beautiful.   Architecture in this sense can be defined as: commodity, firmness, and delight at the right time   and at the right cost (Marcos Vitruvius Pollio).   - Architecture is the masterly, correct, and the magnificent play of masses brought together in   light (Le Corbusier).    - Architecture is a discipline, a profession, and a state of mind. It is a cultural index that takes   different forms in different civilizations and different political settings (Anthony Anotniades).   - The reality of the building does not consists of walls and roofs but in the space within (Lao Tze).   - Architecture is a very special functional art, it confines space so we can dwell in it; it creates a   framework around our lives (Steen Elier Rasmuseen).   - Architecture makes tangible meanings; it creates metaphors of the ideals and beliefs of a group    (Amos Rapoport).   - Architecture safeguards life, health, and property, and promotes public welfare (AIA Board).   - Architecture is created in a field of tension between reason, emotion, and intuition   (Ashraf Salama).