Experiencing and Feeling Light Through Peter Zumthor's Architectural Works

Copyright Issues on the Protection of Architectural Works and Designs

Architects and engineers depend on copyright law to protect their original works. Copyright protection is automatic once a tangible medium of expression in any form of an innovative material, conforming the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, is created. In terms of architectural works, they are protected as literary works (design drawings and plans) and as artistic works (the building or m...

Values education through thinking, feeling and doing

More and more sense a need for the purpose of education to be more than just knowledge acquisition. Values and morality are an integral part of our lives and should for this reason be carefully integrated into educational contexts. For values to become ‘owned’ by students, however, opportunities must be provided for them to actively and critically construct our so-called shared values. Imaginat...

Will Architectural Works Law Have a Chilling Effect?

Natural Light in Architectural Design

Natural Light in Architectural Design: Element and Determinant Roger Neal Goldstein Submitted to the Department of Architecture on May 7, 1976 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture. The importance of natural light in our lives cannot be exaggerated. The religious, emotional, physiological, and perceptual effects of daylight upon human behavior have ...

Analysis of Creativity in Architectural Design after the Islamic Revolution; Case Study: The Selected Award Winning Architectural Works

This research focuses on the analysis of creativity in the process of architectural design works of the Islamic revolution in Iran. The research methodology is “descriptive-analytic” in the stage of theoretical literature and “content analysis” in the operational stage. The statistical population is composed of four architectural works chosen from “Memar” award winning architectural works in 20...