M. HOSAM JIROUDY


  • Sacred
  • Traditional

Alongside all High art, Traditional architecture stands as a profound expression of place, in physical reality and metaphysical aspiration, against the elements of time. It is an enduring record of the relation between man and man, man and nature, and the broader cosmos, intuitively tuned with its cycles. By transforming available matter into objective meaning, it becomes the mode of articulating that relation by the passing civilizations—guided by geography and faith—each according to their worldview. The age old chain of traditionally built fabrics tends to reflect truth in its forms and does not lie. For once any art struggles to become what it is not, falls into oblivion eventually.


Traditional form follows celestial archetypes and means to create models rooted in place that transcend time. Buildings that achieve beauty in harmony with its natural surroundings, locality, and respect its order. Traditional spaces are of the culture of people. Never about the individual, it has always been the making of an architecture that aspires for a grand Ideal—beyond one’s self.




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