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Perhaps the most prominent voice of the Metaphoric architectural school at present is Dr. Basil Al Bayati whose designs have been inspired by trees and plants, snails, whales, insects, dervishes and even myth and literature. [8] He is also the founder of the International School of Metaphoric Architecture in Málaga, Spain. [9]
Basil Al Bayati (Arabic: باسل البياتي; born 13 May 1946) is an Iraqi-born architect and designer who has lived and practiced for the most part in Europe, in particular, London and who Neil Bingham, in his book 100 Years of Architectural Drawing: 1900–2000, has described as "an architect in whom East meets West."
One of the leading contemporary architects that uses biomorphism in his work is Basil Al Bayati, a leading proponent of the school of Metaphoric architecture whose designs have been inspired by trees and plants, snails, whales and insects such as the Palm Mosque at the King Saud University in Riyadh, or the Al-Nakhlah Palm Telecommunications ...
TWA Flight Center, New York. Zoomorphic architecture is the practice of using animal forms as the inspirational basis and blueprint for architectural design. "While animal forms have always played a role adding some of the deepest layers of meaning in architecture, it is now becoming evident that a new strand of biomorphism is emerging where the meaning derives not from any specific ...
The mosque and Islamic centre was designed by Dr. Basil Al Bayati, and took more than six years to complete at a cost of £3.5M. [3] The main hall can hold over one thousand worshippers, [4] with women praying on a balcony overlooking the hall. The mosque holds chandeliers and a vast carpet, with very little furniture.
Expressionist architecture was individualistic and in many ways eschewed aesthetic dogma, [6] but it is still useful to develop some criteria which defines it. Though containing a great variety and differentiation, many points can be found as recurring in works of Expressionist architecture, and are evident in some degree in each of its works:
Al-Bayati (Arabic: البياتي, romanized: al-Bayātī) is a surname.It is connected to the Iraqi al-Bayat tribe. The ancestry and ethnicity of the al-Bayat tribe is contentious. The tribe's ancestry is often linked to the Oghuz Turkic Bayat tribe [1] and its ethnicity described as Iraqi Turk
Hashem Muhammad al-Baghdadi (1917–1973), calligrapher [11] Niazi Mawlawi Baghdadi, 19th-century painter, decorator and calligrapher [12] Ala Bashir (born 1939), painter, sculptor and plastic surgeon [13] Basil Al Bayati (b. 1946), architect and designer; Wafaa Bilal (b. 1966), performance artist, author and educator