Often great writers vividly explain the environments in which they were brought up. They describe the joy of revisiting their homes and how they remember the influence of certain prominent trees and many other details in the landscape. Continue reading
Above is an illustration that I have created.
On this Video I talk about the current architectural movements that are dominating the architectural world as of today. Continue reading
One of the most important lessons i extracted from composing music through many trials and errors was learning the importance of silence in critical parts of a composition. art is not a cake where you can add more and more icing assuming that it will get better and better. Continue reading
Our generation had a front row seat in the initiation of humanity’s transition from physical to digital. We were the ones who first abandoned real time outdoor interactions and real games for dial up internet connections with mIRC. Continue reading
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Typically, top levels of apartment units are most expensive, due to high demand. But if we were more in sync with nature, the bottom levels would have been priced higher.
Nature has endowed us with an immutable instinctual “fear of heights”, which is an evolutionary gesture that is hard-wired within us and is meant to protect us from falling. This alone should have made it pretty clear to us that mankind was meant to dwell not too high up in the air. But due to fierce societal competition especially among women, high levels are preferred and valued more in most societies especially in Turkey. People think they are more successful if they live higher than others in apartment buildings. Similar to the comparison of driving a BMW M5, as opposed to a Nissan X-Trailer. This desire to exhibit power to one another has alienated more important natural instincts. Continue reading
In Architecture schools talent and skill is not enough, you have to be a cunning politician to make sure that your mentors professors and advisors also take ownership in your work to get a good mark. Continue reading
I used to think that it was a good thing that our architecture would be demanded and consumed in the early phases of its construction. But after several completed buildings, my biggest fear has become the early appreciation of a project. Continue reading
A manuscript from Orwell’s 1984 to support my point
To come anything near perfection; Architecture, design, music and all the other visual arts must go through extensive editing processes.
The digital world will replace all artistic media. But it can never replace one thing: Composition making. Because to create compositions similar to how chopin, michelangelo or corbusier had composed you simply must be a sensible non digital organic individual. Continue reading
Somehow water always seems to sneak into buildings. It finds a way and gets in. All it needs is less than a mm gap to penetrate the building. Constantly challenging an architectural work’s ability to provide perfect shelter. Not only an architect must beautifully defy gravity but he also has to beautifully deal with the hostility of different properties of matter such as water.
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