Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Why Architecutre is Affected by Culture and Environment

"The role of an architect is to study and illustrate all the cultural and enviromental aspects and to practically use them in all architecture forms. "
- Mohamad Ayman

"Culture and environment are a part of the context that molds human lifestyle which in turn responds to it's climatic and environmental conditions in a very specific way. This is a symbiotic relationship between human culture and environment which is primitively inseparable. "
-Maya Sanskrit

"From my point of view, when an architect starts the design of a building he must consider many things in order for his architecture to be convenient for users. An important example is culture and how necessary it is that an architect knows all the tradition and beliefs."
-Maria Adel

"Culture and environment mainly affect people's attitude and thinking, as this context is considered to be a mirror for the people who live in it. Whenever culture or environment differ, people's attitudes and thinking also differ. For example, people in Africa behave and think differently than people in Europe concerning design, art etc. So we can say that any environment and culture has its needs, style of living and its way of thinking. And this for sure will affect on architecture. "
-Mostafa Ahmed Youssef

1 comment:

Katie said...

I really liked this source because it was a blog itself, for some college like course. I found that the students who were making these statements had the same point of view of culture that I have.