PSYCOLOGY AND ARCHITECTURE

What is the importance architecture in our lives? How can it improve the way we feel? How can we alter our emotions trough design? How can it increase our social lives?

“ I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples” – Zaha Hadid

“Nothing in the world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people” – Jan Ghel

TRADITIONAL BUILDING TECHNIQUES

What can we learn from the past? How can we utilize ancient building styles to improve our buildings today? How can we design with natural materials?

“I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing” - Tadao Ando

“To create, one must first question everything” -Eileen G

LEED / SUSTINABLITY

How can we make our structures last longer? How can we design more sustainable buildings? How can we improve the health of the occupants?

“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.” -   Frank Llyod Wright

"Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves" Julia Morgan