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THE POETICS OF ARAB-ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE
Muqarnas Online, 1989In a recent study of classical architecture Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre proposed architectural scansion, or the methodical analysis of ways of putting formal structures together, as a way of joining a cultural tradition and enjoying the architecture of the past.' Given the current interest in culturally responsive architecture, a parallel ...
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A UNIFIED ARCHITECTURAL THEORY FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE
International Journal of Architectural Research: ArchNet-IJAR, 2016This research aims to identify criteria for sustainable design solutions to meet the needs of Muslims today. Under the theoretical framework of Nikos Salingaros’ Unified Architectural Theory, design needs and strategies derived from Islamic knowledge and values are identified and used to inform principles for building typologies, location, and movement
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The Islamic Archives and The History of Islamic Architecture
Art Journal, 1964It is obvious that the history of art and the history of architecture were impossible as academic disciplines until photography had reached a practical working level; it is less recognized by many university administrators that art and architectural historians need laboratories as much as do scientists, that the prime laboratories for art are museums ...
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Mosaic in Islamic Architecture
2020Immediately after Islam had emerged in the Arabian Peninsula in the first half of the seventh century, it expanded into a vast geographical area in the first 100 years. The generation of its own cultural identity, correspondingly its religious, political expansion and strength occurred in that period, as well.
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Islamic Architecture on the Move
International Journal of Islamic Architecture, 2014Abstract This study aims to explore a number of conceptual models that may prove fruitful in the study of architectural mobilities within and beyond Islamic lands from the eighteenth century until today. Beginning with a discussion of the ‘new mobilities’ paradigm, the essay explores several examples of architecture on the move via ...
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Problems in Islamic Architecture
The Art Bulletin, 1953THE object of this article1 is not to present the progress made in the West in the study of Islamic architecture. This has been accomplished in a recent paper by Dr. Ettinghausen who has appropriately included it in the story of the development in the West of the study of Islamic art and archaeology.2 It is rather the purpose of the present ...
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