The traditional architecture of UAE is basically the result of two main factors: the hot and humid climate and people's social lives and religion. The first architectural elements for a constructions in the country to sustain and maintain its hot weather is the traditional architectural wind-towers, called in Arabic barajils. Houses used this in the early twentieth century as simple air condition. Wind-towers have four open sides, each of which is hollowed into a concave v-shape, which deflects the wind down, cooling the rooms below. Water thrown on the floor beneath the tower cools the house as the water evaporates. When cool air is not necessary, the vents can be closed. The need of Wind-towers is not necessary nowadays because of technology, but yet you can find old wind-towers in new houses just for its beautiful design

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maintained Sheikh Saeed Al Maktoum house in Dubai wind tower as a significant element of the

Its traditional design has inspired some of the modern house structure

architecture from Houses, Resorts and Hotels to residential

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The Image above is from a beautifully restored and maintained Sheikh Saeed Al Maktoum house in Dubai.Its traditional design has inspired some of the modern architecture from Houses,

Resorts and Hotels to residential Buildings

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An old picture of Dubai houses that shows the wind tower as a significant element of the house structure.

Some criticize UAE architecture because of the wonderful modern buildings that are recently build in the country. They say that the country has lack of identity and that it is influence by other cultures specially the west. But that is not true for two reasons; first the UAE is a new country that started in 1971, and before that it was generally only desert. And because it is a rich country it has fast modernized movements that grabs all the world attention. For this reason some say that we do not have an identity, and they explain that by the country overview that it has so many tall modernize buildings. But i want to ask these people, we did not have buildings in our history how would you want them to have our identity? And because we did not have any before does not mean we can’t have know! Second, they say that our buildings have many influence, its normal because as i mention we are a multicultural society! But this also do not mean that we don’t have our unique traditional design and Islamic architecture. The influence of Islamic and Arab culture on the country architecture is very prominent. In this Blog, I will try to show pictures of constructions in the UAE that has Islamic, traditional, or/and Arabic design, but I will focus more on Abu-Dhabi and Dubai cities because both cities receives most of the criticize .

The United Arab Emirates has a diverse and multicultural society. Emirati culture mainly revolves around the religion of Islam and traditional Arab, and Bedouin culture. Being a highly cosmopolitan society, the UAE has a diverse and vibrant culture. Traditional Architecture in UAE is mainly in the form of vernacular style. The structure which has locally existing resources or/and traditions ideas to address the construction is called Vernacular architecture. This kind of architecture show the environmental, cultural and historical context of the building in which it exists. It is usually fundamental and simple, but some has a valuable design