Transformation of Minarets in Contemporary Mosque Architecture in Turkey

The Conflict between Sublime- Aesthetics in Philosophy and Its Appearance in the Architecture Aesthetics of Contemporary Mosques and Contemporary Patterns (Case Study: Vali-e-Asr Mosque, Imam Khomeini Mosque in Tehran)

Aesthetic-Sublime conflict has been as one of the most pressing issues in the thinking that included in the manifestations of human life and the construction of temples in history. In the modern era, both the formalist and the functionalist currents of modern architecture emerged in response to the German philosopher's theory of Emmanuel Kant. Later, deconstructionist architects such as Eisenma...

Methods of Utilizing Nature in Samples of Iranian Contemporary Architecture

The Opacity of Glass Rethinking Transparency in Contemporary Architecture

In this paper, an exchange of letters between the philosopher Jacques Derrida and architect Peter Eisenman is used as a catalyst to discuss the material qualities of glass and its relationship with the concept of transparency in architecture. In his criticism of an architecture devoid of human qualities, Derrida uses glass, defined through Walter Benjamin’s writings, as a hard and cold material...

Study of the role of open space and blank and empty patterns of home and mosque in traditional architecture and its re-creation in contemporary Iran

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Emerging Mosque Architecture (New Architectural vocabulary in Secular Nepal)

Though Muslims have been living in Nepal from the 15th century, they have started practicingtheir religious activities freely only after enactment of new civil code in 1963. This paper aims to explore the potentials and problems on the existing mosques, perception of the religious structures by Muslim community and analysing of existing legal and institutional framework before drawing a conclus...