KUWAIT, July 17 (KUNA) -- Kuwaiti architects emphasized Tuesday evening the importance of developing people's sense of beauty to enable them to understand the art of architecture.
In a lecture on architecture held among the activities of the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL)'s summer festival, architects emphasized the role of culture in improving the public taste and sense of beauty.
Engineer Fareed Abdal said some architectural forms negatively affect construction and even the environment.
He called on the NCCAL to spread awareness regarding architecture by organizing lectures and conferences on the issue.
For his side, Engineer Sayed Mosawi said some people have a misunderstanding about architects, thinking every architect must be gifted in drawing or making sculptures.
However, architects relay on the technology of computers instead of drawing their designs by hand, he added.
He noted that the art of architecture has five aims which are beauty, solidity, performance, history, and logic, stressing that those goals are interconnected to each other.
Student in Kuwait University's architecture department, Alia Al-Izza, talked about the academic aspect of architecture, saying it is making something out of nothing.
NCCAL's Secretary General Bader Al-Rifai said old architecture in Kuwait used to focus on security, pointing out that walls were usually high to protect people from intruders.
