An architect is like a chess player
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” A true architect is like a chess player, as he must calculate every decision he makes over and over again. He cannot move his pawn as he pleases without paying attention to the rest of the pieces, otherwise his king will perish and he will lose. He is forced to pay attention to all the pieces and calculate the danger and be aware of it in every move. And every decision. Likewise, the architect has a reason and meaning for every step and every decision he takes, and he must pay attention to all the dimensions surrounding his decision. His eye is on the economy so as not to exaggerate the project budget, his eye is on the environment in which he is a guest, so as not to increase its burden with his new building, his eye is on energy so as not to exhaust it, his eye is on the culture of the people of the place who make the building for them so as not to violate their customs, traditions, and belief, and his eye is on the network of social relations.

that bind them, on the skills and building crafts that they master, on the materials that can be used, on the laws that govern and regulate construction in their location, on the function that the building must and must perform to the fullest extent, on the set of eloquent sensory experiences that it wants to convey through its building, on the added value behind its construction, and on the values. which it advocates and the development which it should achieve through it. The matter is not easy and it is not just a dazzling external appearance and not a specific material or construction system. Rather, honest architecture is everything I mentioned and more because in the end it has a higher goal, which is achieving the quality of human life. Quality of life is not achieved when the built environment becomes full of contradictions that disturb people’s lives.

The architect who designs residential apartments separated by thin walls that do not block sound and violate auditory privacy becomes responsible for everything that these walls cause in terms of deteriorating social relations between neighbors and disturbing their lives, and he who designs an office space without... Minimum natural lighting will be responsible for what people will suffer from working in this dark and gloomy environment


Whoever designs bathrooms in the basement of mosques without taking into account good ventilation will be responsible for people’s reluctance to go to the mosque because of the smells emitted. Whoever designs glass buildings that drain wealth in order to feel a false sense of modernity will be responsible for wasting people’s money for no purpose or significant purpose... There are many examples of those who Few people envision it.
We, as architects, will be held accountable for what our own hands commit if we do not fear God in the construction we create in our country and in... We did not provide it to make people's lives easier

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