للكاتب
Ahmed M. El-Kordy, Alaa Farid
Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering, Al Azhar Univ., Caio, , Egypt
ABSTRACT
We communicate anywhere across the world instantly by a quickly growing electronic
telecommunications global market. Global communications have changed the way architects
work. We are today in the age of information where information is the key element by which
our culture transacts architecture. We move with great speed trying to achieve levels of
stimulations. Meaning is associated with place but today place has been transformed through
speed and access via image and attempts at virtual reality. The built environment today seams
a very confusing, individualistic and ever changing culture. Global communication,
technological advancement, trying to achieve perfection and associating the global
development, all helped in changing our culture gradually. The culture of information and
technology is our real culture. [1]
Vertical architecture is a global language based on the technological advancement. It is an
architectural solution where functions are arranged vertically. It is a philosophy that bounds
different countries of different cultures. It is one language but has several meanings, that
differs due to designing constrains and its relation to the region where it belongs to. Some
architects imitate high rise building with its technology from countries of higher technology to
other regions in order to reach satisfaction and other use the vertical architecture language
with its high technology fulfilling meanings adequate to the place and the community.
Vertical architecture is a global language that shortened the distance in the design concepts of
different countries and may differ according to concept messages related to each country.