Self-Portrait

Since I was young, I remember that my biggest passion was drawing and beside that spending my time at one of my favourite places which was my father’s work. He sells building materials and I always was so interested to use some of them. Using cement, wood, stones and whatever I could find, I used to build little houses and casttles which was my favorite thing. As time passed, my passion was leading me more towards architecture.

Before I started my university I knew that the way I was seeing things would change, but not this much. Before I used to pass on the streets and that was all. Now I'm like, oh look that’s a nice building, or this one should have been better. Moreover, when I used to travel, my main intention was just to see the most popular spots of the city. Now my main purpose is architecture. To see and experience the buildings and structures that have changed the way that we think or act is very interesting to me. I can't escape architecture even when I watch a movie. To me now everything is architecture.

In addition, architecture is a field that includes so many other ones. The best motivation I find into myself is how just one building or a structure can change the life of so many people. What we build does not only affect one person but a group of people, a community, sometimes the entire nation. Also when we think about them, we should not focus only in one category or type of people but we should design structures that are easily experienced by everybody. In this way we bring people together, teach them that embracing the differences can lead to great things and can affect in creating a better and a happier environment.

However “the people” is not the only category that we should focus on before we create a structure. We should not leave behind the animals, the nature and all the living things. We have the power as architects, to create environments in which every living creature can live  happily in peace.

Architecture is always changing. In years it has constantly changed due to different reasons. Now the “reason” is technology. This change is developing so fast. Technology has made the world look so small. Architecture is now embracing this fact. With the technology we are creating multifunctional and flexible spaces. With the new softwares , and technology, it seems that there are no limitis when it comes to creating new forms and spaces.

Sometimes I think that our work as architects is like a puzzle game. We need to gather all the information, split it into small pieces and in the end to create the final form by putting every piece in the right spot.

Everything that we build ends up building us.