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Architecture in Context
Designing in the Middle East
Hassan Radoine (Author)
9781118719886, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 26 April 2017
256 pages
24.4 x 18.8 x 1.3 cm, 0.748 kg
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: Highly illustrated, the book covers architecture and design in North Africa, the Levant, the Gulf, and Turkey, Iran and Iraq.
Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Architecture in the Middle East: a Background 9 Function and Space 110 Space/Function versus Place 110 Space as a Process 112 Space Configurationality 113 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 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 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 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, Transmission) 167 Chapter 4: Trends and Discourses of Contextual Architecture 199 Regionalism and Internationalism: A Design Reference 204 Representation and Expression of Cultural Meaning 171 Representation/Expression 171 Identification/communication/ Transmission 174 Integration/development 176 Spatial-Cultural Arrangement (Transformation and Experience) 177 Climate and Environment (Adaptive and Creative Sustainability) 181 Building Know-How and Processes of Production 189 Local/Global Building Know-How 189 Technology-Based Culture 191 A Paradoxical Design: Reactivating or Mimicking ‘Islamic’/‘Arabic’ Architecture 207 Reinvention of Tradition or Heritage in Design: Continuity or Discontinuity 211 Designing with Nature 215 Nationalist, Post-Orientalist and Fantasist Design 220 ‘Theme Parks’ and Megaprojects: Designing in the Gulf 225 Sustainability-Based Design 227 Conclusion 230 References 231 Morality, Ethics and Responsibility 193 Conclusion 195 References 196 Appendix: Orientation: Towards A Model of Contextual Enquiry-based Design 233 Conclusion 239 Illustration Credits 241 Index 242
Subject Areas: Architecture [AM]
