Villa Rizk

Notes

“This villa is particularly important because it marks a turning point in the work of the forty-year-old Tukan. Since then, the villa has become a model for many others in Amman, as it is considered the first symbol of the new economic spirit of the city. For its architect, it was probably just one more house like the ones he had designed in other countries, but in the new Amman, which was enjoying unprecedented affluence, this building became an aesthetic point of reference, almost a symbol of the aspirations of the new wealthy classes. This prototype of the detached luxury house of the early 1980s, of the ‘villa’, shows an extremely open plan, in which the designer avoids any rigidity even in the perimeter of individual rooms. We see the same freedom in the roofing inclined at different levels and covered in tiles, which have become very popular since then" (Abu Ghanimeh & Pisani, 2001).
 

Sources

Ali Abu Ghanimeh and Mario Pisani, Jafar Tukan: Architecture, Melfi (Potenza): Libria, 2001, p. 30, 33.

Mimar, Vol. 12, 1984, p. 56, 57.

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