As a designer, I finally found a great design program that is intuitive and allows me to design rather than program. The program is Form Z. Unlike SketchUp standard functions, Form Z can create parametric and biomorphic forms quite easily. This is very important, since I don’t want to program.
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Curators: Murtaza Vali and Uzma Z. Rizvi
Commissioner: Architecture and Design Commission and the Saudi Ministry of Culture
Street Scene with People and Vehicles, Three Large Government Buildings, Jiddah, 1950s.. Image Courtesy of Saudi Aramco
Studio Bound is a design and research practice founded in 2015 between London and the Gulf, by Basmah Kaki, Hessa AlBader, and Hussam Dakkak. Architect Basmah Kaki is a recipient of the RIBA Bronze Medal and the SOM Foundation UK Award, and is the director and tutor of the AA Visiting School: Makkah vs Makkah program. She is based in Jeddah and is working on a number of key cultural projects, such as leading heritage work in UNESCO sites in Al Balad in Jeddah and in Al Ula. Hessa AlBader collaborates on both design and research projects in London and in the Arabian Gulf. She is a co-director and tutor of the AA Visiting School: Makkah vs Makkah program with a work portfolio that ranges between curating and managing internatio