In 1958, Corbu advocated a ‘new architecture’ for a ‘new man’. The omnipresence of the architect creating spaces to model a society led to architects building many sins. After that the influence of architecture in the lives of its inhabitants began to be a subject ignored. A lot of contemporary architecture limited itself to the production of design or service to capital of the day. In 19...

mosques, as symbol of islamic architecture must play an important role in reflecting the superiority of allah the almighty. there are many ways in making it successful and one of them is through the high quality of aesthetic value. aesthetic value in islamic art and architecture is normally portrayed by the highest degree of motifs and ornamentation. contemporary mosque designers normally focus...

Recognizing the link between “Cognition" and "Architectural Creation” indicates that there is a relation between subject and object. Correct understanding of this relationship helps artistic creativity, especially in the architecture, to take steps towards proving truth that have caused works to be continued over the past times. Knowledge and cognitions in architecture are categories that today...

Architecture as a designerly way of thinking and knowing is to interact with its environment. The manuscript is to speculate “interactive form-generation” based on high-performance architecture theory, and discuss the precursors and the potentials. The research aims to explore and determine the roots, aspects of interactive architecture as a part of performance-based design in contemporary arch...

In contemporary Central Asia, Soviet-era authors are national heroes. Writers’ natal homes have become lovingly curated home-museums; statues of poets bedeck city squares; and schoolchildren write dictations from twentieth-century novels. Less often discussed in public, such writers also once belonged to the Soviet Union, many these called themselves “proletarian,” their novels purported imagin...

nowadays architects and architecture schools in iran are pleaded to produce architecture with iranian and islamic identity by managers, media and those who care in general. these requisition which sometimes end up in architecture legislations and guidelines have never received any clear response on the side of architects. what most addressees identify as “iranian” and “islamic” architecture is ...

his study is dedicated to an examination of factors shaping religious and regional politics in Central Asia, and more specifically in the states of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The particular geographic focus is on the Ferghana Valley, the most densely populated area in Central Asia and home to 20 percent of its total population, but the implications of the eventual findings will be much broader,...