CULTURAL HERITAGE AND ITS ROLE IN ENRICHING EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Applied Decoration Department, The Higher Institute of Applied Arts, Cairo Academy of Sciences and Arts, Egypt

Abstract

The spread of western architectural styles has become imperative for us to search for the identity of our heritage in the various arts and to search for identity in dealing with architectural facades to show the role of heritage in reviving the cultural legacies of the Egyptian society. What is cultural heritage The cultural heritage belongs to the sciences of the soul, where it belongs to the subjective world, therefore it can be defined as a space in which multiple branches such as philosophy, sociology, and inter-biological studies participate in the study. And therefore it affects Human awareness and perception as it expresses material legacies such as architecture, drawings and costumes, and this indicates that the human consciousness at its core is a cultural awareness and not a material one as a person is a being who lives in order to understand his existence, that is, it is a symbolic system. Material.

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