Besim hakim biography of mahatma

Besim S. Hakim’s  response to the question: “BUILDING BEAUTY IS AN EFFORT TO LEARN ABOUT THE BEAUTY THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN THE REAL WORLD: WHAT IS YOUR WORK GOING TO CONTRIBUTE TO THAT?”

During the Fall of 1975 I and ten of my senior architecture students spent nine weeks in the village of Sidi Bou Sa’id located 16 kilometers north of Tunis the capital of Tunisia.

Besim hakim biography of mahatma

The village is beautiful and when confronted with documenting the work that the students undertook during their stay, it became obvious and necessary to articulate the reasons why the village was determined to be beautiful. At the time of working on the first edition of the study, published in 1978 and re-issued in 2009 (Hakim, 1978, 2009) I became aware of the book A Pattern Language (1977) by Christopher Alexander and other colleagues which suggested that the existence of many of the patterns in a built environment would ensure a high quality and thus achieve beauty.

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