About Me
Hello, I am Saleh, welcome to my course in Domestika.
I will tell you about myself,
where I am from, what I do, what's my profession,
and also, I will show you some of my works.
I am originally from Syria, working and living in Istanbul.
I am an architect.
I work in designing and developing several kinds of buildings
like commercial, residential, and others.
I have 12 years of experience.
I graduated from Damascus University in 2010
and I travelled to a couple of countries like Arab United Emirates,
Qatar,
Egypt, and Turkey.
After mastering a lot of architectural computer programs
like Revit,
3ds Max,
AutoCAD,
although a lot of architects depend on computer programs
to do their work and maybe to do their design from the beginning,
I would argue that starting by sketching is the best way for doing your design,
and you can just easily
think and develop your design through your sketch.
One of my favorite projects is my graduation project.
It was a real project for real people.
They lived in a really bad condition.
That's why I had to design new houses for them
with a courtyard providing a private and good condition of life.
Also, I designed in that project a place for children to play.
Another project is an office building.
It's one of my recent projects I'm working on.
In this project, I am an architect,
so I'm responsible of all the processes and things going on
and I was involved in it from the beginning.
I learned a lot and a lot
from how to do the brief concept to doing the detail design.
The great support of my life was positive thinking
and not giving up at the darkest moment.
By practicing every day and following my passion and dream,
I got to where I am now.
In this course, I hope that you will see sketching
as a language and tool for thinking and designing.
Now you know about me and about my story.
In the next lesson, you will know about my influences.