The renaissance of the building stone in defining the architectural identity of the Jordanian city - (Amman city)

Abstract

Abstract The material of building stone in this picturesque nature is a valuable treasure in the hands of man, and the value of building stone that man discovered since ancient times is because he believes that this material is the truth that preserves his artistic achievements over time and reflects the face of civilization and the thought of peoples, and man has invested in stone caves and in The manufacture of hunting and self-defense tools, and he used them in their basic function to bear the weights in building his dwellings, cities, and temples, and in the details also in the walls, ceilings, knots, doors, windows, stone columns, their bases, and muqarnas. And when we start today the stage of architectural design, we touch on the art of architecture and full knowledge of all the technical details in order to succeed in this work, and we read about the history of the architecture of civilizations and peoples for thousands of years and the stages of their development until our modern era, which reflected their religious and social philosophy and its continuous development, and it is a science that combines the past And the present with its primary components and has an extension and has no limits. It is the science of the building block over time that left us diligence to delve into this field, especially in our field of work after we left the academic period. The science of building stone reflects the civilized and cultural face of the peoples in general and the Arab peoples in particular.