Architectural images of history and culture: contemporary interpretation

Symbols, Images and Stereotypes of Contemporary Culture

History of Contemporary Cultural Psychiatry in Iran:

Cultural psychiatry is one of the relatively new trends in psychiatry that has received much attention today. During the last century, many Iranian psychiatrists have taken steps to introduce various aspects of cultural psychiatry from the field of epidemiology to the cultural conceptualization of psychiatric disorders. This article tries to refer to the history of contemporary cultural psychia...

Interpretation of Quality and Dimensions of Intertextual Relations in Contemporary Public Constructions in Uzbekistan with Architectural Works in this Country at Timurid Era (Since 1960-1990)’

Today, one of the important topics, which are mentioned in architecture, is the relationship between architectural works with each other and way of effect of such works on them. On the other hand, under current conditions and despite existing trends which look for their own architecture, it is crucial important to interpret how contemporary architectural works are affected by previous architect...

AIDS and contemporary history

calls "the politics of knowledge dissemination", the tension between the desire to enfranchise the masses medically and the need to keep potentially dangerous knowledge in competent hands. These chapters hardly exhaust the subject, of course. Porter's compendious introduction acknowledges as much, but also rightly suggests that the value of this work is not simply that it explores several new p...

Architectural Interpretation of Cellular Automata

Mathematical constructions and concepts can be utilized in a number of methods to investigate the process of generating architectural forms. One is to technically layout architectural elements along such constructions, another is to explicitly develop forms corresponding exactly to the underlying concept, and another is to use such concepts as inspiration, a starting point for design. A hybrid ...