PIONEERS CHANGE THEIR CONCEPTS 2من اصل2

PROF. DR. ALY RAAFAT
Edward Stone American architect was influenced by his Mogul inspirations
in working in American Embassy in New Delhi. He used his typical details,
in his classic lines on a cylinder in American Pavilion inBrassel .
HisMushrabiasin most of his design form decoration texture inside
basicgeometric forms .
PhilipJohnson , started his glass house in NewCananConn .
On orthogonal lines in glass & steel using a contrasting circular bath .
He followed the same lines in the Museum of modern arts in NewYork ,
However he moved 180 towards humanism to design the guest house in his
glass house in a new classic style with domical roof and slender columns.
He had a newpedimentedparapet for the AT & T office tower ofN.York . He
also used classic segmental arches in hisAmonCarter museum in Nebraska .
The author changed concepts from modernity in his designs for
theSaudiaArabian Television Broadcasting station inGeddahand
Nasr & Rydhtowers in Giza to local Middle Eastern design for the
Social & Criminological ResearchCenter in Cairo, to symbolicGomhuriaa
publishing office building down town Cairo. He made a postmodern venture in
the New Central Library Cairo University 2014 within itsNewclassic campus
in Giza .
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