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Architecture in Context: Designing in the Middle East provides a foundation for understanding the critical context of architecture and design in this region. It does this by: -presenting a practical overview of architectural know-how in the Middle East, and its potential for cultivating a sense of p...
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
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| Publisher Address: | Hoboken, New Jersey : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Architecture in Context: Designing in the Middle East provides a foundation for understanding the critical context of architecture and design in this region. It does this by: -presenting a practical overview of architectural know-how in the Middle East, and its potential for cultivating a sense of place -introducing local architectural vocabularies and styles, and how they can still be reactivated in contemporary design -exploring the cultural and contextual meaning of forms as references that may influence contemporary architecture -discussing important discourses and trends in architecture that allow a rethinking of the current global/local dichotomy. Highly illustrated, the book covers architecture and design in North Africa, the Levant, the Gulf, and Turkey, Iran and Iraq. |
| Item Description: |
INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1: ARCHITECTURE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: A BACKGROUND 9 Geopolitical and Environmental Characteristics 10 Cultural and Religious Influences 17 Architectural and Urban Classical Local Antecedents 31 Colonial Architecture, East-West Encounters 43 Decolonising Architecture: Nation Building 49 Architecture of Development: An Urban and Housing Quest 52 Contemporary Architecture: Faster and Higher 54 Conclusion 56 References 57 CHAPTER 2: ARCHITECTURAL VOCABULARY: ELEMENTS OF LOCAL STYLES 59 Site Typologies 62 Biological Layer 65 Cultural Layer 72 Physical Layer 75 Social and Communal Layer 92 Environmental Layer 94 Massing and Volumetric Composition 97 Compactness 102 Connectedness 104 Transition 104 Fragmentation 106 Skyline 108 Function and Space 110 Space/Function versus Place 110 Space as a Process 112 Space Configurationality 113 Scale and Proportion 115 Human Scale and Proportion 117 Materials and Scale 118 Size and Scale 119 Light and Form 123 Light as Energy 125 Light as Space 127. Light as Form 129 Light as Metaphor 131 Order and Geometry 134 Geometry and Order as Design 135 Geometry and Order as Structure 138 Geometry and Order as Allegory 139 Ornament and Symbolism 142 Ornament as Motif 143 Ornament as Symbolism 146 Building as Digital Ornament 149 Patterns, Textures and Colours 151 Architectural Patterns versus Decorative Patterns 152 Local versus Imported Patterns 156 Composition of Patterns, Textures, and Colours 157 Conclusion 162 References 163 CHAPTER 3: CULTURAL AND CONTEXTUAL MEANING 165 Cultural Value Judgment and Symbolic Codes (Cognitive Schemata, |
| Carrier Form: | vii, 248 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781118719886 1118719883 |
| CLC: | TU-883.7 |
| Call Number: | TU-883.7/R131 |