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We are always looking for co-workers, editors, and reviewers.
Currently, the team is composed of:
Elie Michel Harfouche
architect l editor in chief
Studied architecture at ALBA, worked in contracting, interior design, architecture and urban planning firms, but always presented affinity to the narrative side of architecture and design
http://www.elieharfouche.com
Daniela Georges Saliby
graphic designer l creative consultant
Graphic design graduate of USEK, freelancer in search for rooted design beyond the commercial era of our times, believes in the expressive artistic production as means of transcendence.
Suzanne James Maguire
Planner l proofreader
Suzanne is a planner currently working as a researcher in London.
This portal is dedicated to Michel Harfouche and Elias Karaan.
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ARCHILEB is redefining its online presence and is currently looking for collaborators.
If interested please email: info@archileb.com
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Archileb offers a range of services including but not limited to the below:
Graphic Design
Web Design
Research
Advertising
Graphic Design
If you are looking for a simple business card design or for a complete corporate identity, Archileb’s team will be with you from the brainstorming phase, into the creation, to the completion of all corporate identity items (logos, letterheads, invoices, receipts, brochures, etc…).
For further assistance, you can email us at services@archileb.com.
Web Design
In the line of its strong belief in the future of the internet as the ultimate exchange medium, Archileb offers you the opportunity to join the cyberspace family, a move that will revolutionize the way you were conducting your business or exchanging your ideas.
Whether you need a simple homepage, a comprehensive corporate presence, or a full e-commerce solution; Archileb’s team will develop your website by registering your domain name, designing your website, developing, hosting, maintaining and marketing it.
For further assistance, you can email us at services@archileb.com.
Research
Since Archileb is a web tool, we offer you the opportunity to benefit from its online experience conducting thorough researches and presenting a comprehensive concise listing of e-content.
For further assistance, you can email us at services@archileb.com.
Advertising
Archileb represents a perfect promotional partner for societies and bodies working in the following fields, and wishing to benefit from the site’s highly targeted traffic, ongoing promotion and publicity drives:
• Design, Building and Construction industry
• Writers, Editors and Bookstores
• Teaching centers, Schools and Universities
• Organizations, Groups and Associations
Archileb can be useful in orchestrating instrumental email campaigns touching specific subjects or through its monthly newsletter and will enable you to reach Architects, Interior Designers, Landscape Architects, Civil Engineers, Researchers, Critics, Students, Suppliers…)
You can choose between our 4 advertising programs:
• Free Listing
• Sponsorship (Website or E-newsletter)
• Banner advertising (Website or E-newsletter)
• Portfolio hosting
• Project review
• Product review
For further assistance, you can email us at services@archileb.com
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Archileb’s main goal is to become one of the best regarded architectural sites on the internet, dipping in the wide array of possibilities offered by the development of information and communication technologies, to focus on Lebanese architecture from the documentation and analysis of its past, through the promotion and objective criticism of its present, to the initiation of its future to the infinite landscape of options offered by the digital age.
Archileb will try to:
•Set itself as an informative medium providing current updates on news, events, competitions as well as people and products, an exploration tool and an articulate database of knowledge retrievable in controlled configurations.
•Incarnate a digital interaction platform encouraging collaboration and exchange between local, regional and international designers, planners and builders.
•Act as a laboratory for experiments and discussions in quest for rooted, projective and narrative architecture in the realms of the information age.
•Satisfy the need for critical discourse and initiate and investigation on the changes that are occurring to our ideas of community, architecture and space; enhancing cultural structure and social awareness, and promoting architecture and art as an integral part of the daily urban experience.
•Play a dynamic role in initiating Lebanese and international audience to the wide array of possibilities offered by the development of information and communication technologies, and thus offering a firm basis on which to postulate and explore future possibilities.
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While technology driven factors are influencing our increasingly information oriented society, leading to the formation of the “connected mind” individual; and as the physical and the virtual embrace each other ever more tightly, contaminating architecture with conceptions and practices that are sometimes vestigial, sometimes revolutionary, and always transformative; contemporary Lebanese architectural production drawns between revivals of an already contested heritage and “modern” downloads of uncontextual artifacts.
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Date: March,10 2005
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Location: Istanbul
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Biography: was born in de meern, holland in 1963.
from 1988 to 1993 she studied at the academy for industrial design,
in eindhoven, department ‘identity’.
she first gained notoriety in 1993 as a member of the renowned dutch
group droog design. in 2000 she started with the company-name:
‘jongeriusLab’ her own rotterdam-based company.
jongeriusLab is making a highly unique collection of products including
ceramics, textiles, tableware, and furniture.
her works deliberately show the traces of how they were made,
embracing imperfections and unusual mixtures of materials and techniques.
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what's the best moment of the day?
I like the mornings.
what books do you have on your bedside table?
I'm now reading about what everyday life in europe was like in
different countries in europe in the mid 1880s -
all the little details of how the women did the washing,
how large the living rooms were and this kind of thing.
it really interests me how it all works.
do you read design magazines?
only if they send them to me.
I just look at it.
do you listen to the radio?
I appreciate radio conversations, documentaries on the radio.
I don't like music on the radio and I don't own a tv.
I always listen to the radio, but talk. talking.
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are there any types of clothes do you avoid wearing?
I would never wear girly clothes, or anything uncomfortable.
do you have children?
yes, two.
one here with me (she is visibly pregnant) and one at home.
do you have any pets?
no, I hate pets.
describe your style, like a good friend of yours would describe it.
I'm designer who uses a lot of ingredients to get to a product.
not only form, but also history, tradition and contemporary inspiration.
and I like to mix craft with industry. so in short... I can't be shorter.
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is there any designer from the past who you greatly appreciate?
castiglioni - I can still look at his work and go 'whoa'!
in a way what he did was more shocking in that period than the
work we do now that people think is so revolutionary.
in that moment of time it was really something.
and of those still working ?
I like jasper morrison - but more because he is king of the profession.
every work he does is perfectly done.
of the others, jurgen bey I like, but then he is a friend of mine.
do you discuss or exchange ideas with other designers?
yes, with jurgen bey.
I see the rest of friend designers at receptions and openings,
but no, there are not lively discussions.
when you were a child, what did you want to be
when you grew up?
I wanted to be famous (laughs).
no, no, no, I wanted to be a hippie - that was first.
famous is not the right word - there is a saying you see-
something like ‘get your neck out of the woods’,
above the crowd - I wanted to get somewhere.
what is your approach to the question of ecology and
sustainable design?
I ‘recycle’ because I use old forms and old traditions,
but I don't lose much energy on that ‘ecological’ point.
what I try to do is to make work that is so layered, personal or detailed,
nicely detailed that it really touches people so they really want to buy it,
so they save for it and buy it and they have it for the rest of their life
like you buy antique or art or whatever.
in that way you give design a happier approach than the
throw-away cheap things that are on the market.
it appears to us that your work considers those who are
actually producing the work to put something of themselves
into the work so they have something that is not so boring...
do you think about the people who actually produce,
who work on your project. to give them satisfaction?
most of the time the people who work behind the machines are not
so creative. each plate that comes out of the painting room is
thought of by the director because the people are not interested.
I did a hand thrown project - there was only one man that wanted
to do this and he did it and made beautiful things, but the rest were
laughing at him. it is not a party inside the factory when I come to
visit, you can’t have it all. I make work for them that sells -when
there are big orders they think -
oh, so the market really wants it. so then they can have a job and
then they are really going to believe in it and then the love comes,
it is a strange situation. the understanding comes with the volumes
they have to make.
any advice for young designers?
make you own stories, use your personality or own ideas to
become a designer
you have to do it on your own power.
is there anything that you are afraid of regarding the future ?
any big issues behind the door?
there is a lot wrong.
africa is still dying from hunger...
and the whole aids issue - it is something you cant solve with design.
this is one of the hates I have for my own business because it is not
of political or social relevance.
the world goes on, with or without !
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