Last Friday, we at MIIM Designs celebrated Frank Lloyd Wright's Birthday:
His method of teaching and practicing architecture is unprecedented. Nevertheless, those who did get a chance to learn from the "Wright School of Architecture", are determined to pass on his legacy. Hence, when we celebrated Wright's birthday, we went through the 10-Point Manifesto for His Apprentices:
Read More‘the life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against ugliness. I think that it is my responsibility to make the work better than it is. that is my number one priority. the second priority is to decrease the amount of vulgarity around by replacing the vulgarity with things that are more refined. my life is a continual struggle, a continuous battle against vulgarity taking over.’ – Massimo Vignelli
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Read MoreMore than half of Americans either own or work for a small business, and two out of three new jobs in the U.S. each year are created by small businesses. It’s clear that we make a big impact with our creativity, hard work and passion.
Read MoreCongratulation to MIIM Designs and to our CEO Maryam Eskandari, for being one of the Female Entrepreneurs of the World: Female Entrepreneurs of the World (FEW) is an international organization that supports gender equality and the advancement of women in entrepreneurship. FEW provides a community for entrepreneurs to share experiences in the hopes that transparency of information will inspire others in their entrepreneurial journey.
Read MoreLast Saturday, MIIM Designs joined Harvard Innovation Lab along with along with volunteers from the Harvard Council on Business and the Environment, the Environmental Action Committee, to resolve some of the most vital sustainable issues: Reducing chemical wastes in lab, reducing gas consumption in urban cities designed specifically for the vehicle and creating a green city.
Read MoreThis week we are celebrating International Earth Day at MIIM Designs. Earth Day 2014 has been primarily focused on “Green Cities” and the developing the urban environment to contribute in making cities greener. Recently the United Nation’s Sustainable Development committee and the World Economic Forum have been focused on three areas of environmental impact and financial viability.
Read MoreIt’s the newest, strangest, hardest holiday one could ask for — and I don’t mean because of the bitter herbs. Passover is a celebration of the blossoming Jewish nation, finally free to self-define. But the path toward self-definition is a rocky one, and our rituals don’t shy away from that fact.
Read MoreAccording to tradition , the Ka’abah, or the Cube, was first built by the first Abrahamic Prophet, Adam (upon him be peace). What is amazing about this is that the Ka’abah is symbolic not only of the unity of mankind through space, but also through time. Throughout human history, it has always existed as a place of worship of the Divine God. When we declare our allegiance to the One, we are in the memories of billions of footsteps, in the residue of the very first human beings, in the energetic space of thebeing of human.
Read MoreMost design studios conduct at least some business in a remote manner. Today’s studios collaborate with outside experts and consultants and contract out specialized work to a third party. The medium for this collaboration is the internet. Be it email, shared files on cloud drives, instant messenger, etc., today’s collaboration with third parties happens over the internet. As we move into a more collaborative era, and as more experts are brought on projects of increasing complexity, the internet becomes an increasingly necessary tool which we will employ to get our work done.
Read MoreOver the past decade, I have evolved as a designer and have found new paradigms for the work of MIIM Designs. We have shifted from an old top-down paradigm of “one solution for all locations” toward a more organic, sympathetic, bottom-up “questioning design” approach in order to design a better world. A designer can sometimes express sympathy by probing and “problem finding”. Sympathy then becomes love when designer executes the design, creating a culturally bound, sustainable, and economical design solution that addresses the needs of users at multiple levels, integrating seamlessly with the world around it, and occasionally daring to imagine a better world. We can address the needs of a community, alleviate poverty, raise educational standards, and enrich the core values of a new generation that will formed by the spaces we create.
Read MoreSince June, I have had the pleasure of being part of the wonderful architecture firm that is MIIM Designs. The MIIM team is a group of architects, researchers and designers who are passionate about art and architecture, with a unique lens inspired by Islamic architecture. Through my summer internship with MIIM, I have been given the opportunity to experience architecture from a completely new perspective, both in regards to the method and types of projects.
Read MoreAnalyzing Typhoon Haiyan
With the Philippines struck by an average of eight to nine typhoons a year, at a significant yearly cost to their economy, they knew something was imminent. It was only a matter of time. As #3 on the World Risk Report’s list of most at risk countries, it is followed at a distance by both Haiti and Indonesia. The Philippines hold such a high place on the World Risk Report because of a high exposure risk due to its geographic location and its relative poverty. Haiti and Indonesia have a much, much lower exposure risk, though I am only using them as a base line because they have had the most recent major natural disasters and could be on the face considered comparable.
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