Architecture in context : designing in the Middle East /
Architecture in Context: Designing in the Middle East provides a foundation for understanding thecritical 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 pla...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chichester, West Sussex, UK :
Wiley,
2017.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Architecture in the Middle East : a background
- Geopolitical and environmental characteristics
- Cultural and religious influences
- Architectural and urban classical local antecedents
- Colonial architecture, East-West encounters
- Decolonising architecture : nation building
- Architecture of development : an urban and housing quest
- Contemporary architecture : faster and higher
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 2. Architectural vocabulary : elements of local styles
- Site typologies
- Biological layer
- Cultural layer
- Physical layer
- Social and communal layer
- Environmental layer
- Massing and volumetric composition
- Compactness
- Connectedness
- Transition
- Fragmentation
- Skyline
- Function and space
- Space/function versus place
- Space as a process
- Space configurationality
- Scale and proportion
- Human scale and proportion
- Materials and scale
- Size and scale
- Light and form
- Light as energy
- Light as space
- Light as form
- Light as metaphor
- Order and geometry
- Geometry and order as design
- Geometry and order as structure
- Geometry and order as allegory
- Ornament and symbolism
- Ornament as motif
- Ornament as symbolism
- Building as digital ornament
- Patterns, textures and colours
- Architectural patterns versus decorative patterns
- Local versus imported patterns
- Composition of patterns, textures, and colours
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3. Cultural and contextual meaning
- Cultural value judgment and symbolic codes (cognitive schemata, transmission)
- Representation and expression of cultural meaning
- Representation/expression
- Identification/communication/transmission
- Integration/development
- Spatial-cultural arrangement (transformation and experience)
- Climate and environment (adaptive and creative sustainability)
- Building know-how and processes of production
- Local/global building know-how
- Technology-based culture
- Morality, ethics and responsibility
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 5. Trends and discourses of contextual architecture
- Regionalism and internationalism : a design reference
- A paradoxical design : reactivating or mimicking 'Islamic'/'Arabic' architecture
- Reinvention of tradition or heritage in design : continuity or discontinuity
- Designing with nature
- Nationalist, post-Orientalist and fantasist design
- 'Theme parks' and megaprojects : designing in the Gulf
- Sustainability-based design
- Conclusion
- References
- Appendix. Orientation : towards a model of contextual enquiry-based design
- Conclusion
- Illustration credits
- Index.