Numerous foreign architects and researchers came to Iran from European countries in the first half of the contemporary century to carry out various activities. One of these figures was André Godard, whose cultural and research activities are of special importance in terms of variety and effectiveness. The present study hence aims to discuss the cultural and historical backgrounds that made it p...

Abstract The north-eastern French city of Nancy is one the centres Art Nouveau. It has been analysed in detail many classical reviews Nouveau, but mainly relation to decorative applied art works produced at School Art. study pays attention also architecture. architectural and artistic qualities iconic Nouveau monument Villa L. Majorelle are detail, basic data about É. André, H. Gutton, J. Horne...

The corpus of accounts by European travelers who visited Armenia (Fig. 1), extracted from A. Marouti's research, as well various writings authors - Armenian architects during the Russian then Soviet period will serve a starting point for this research. Its objective is to put two questions in parallel: what consideration vernacular constructions genuine architectures Armenia; and how interest s...

In early 1995, a DSM pilot initiative has been launched in the French islands of Guadeloupe and Reunion through a partnership between several public and private partners (the French Public Utility EDF, the University of Reunion Island, low cost housing companies, architects, energy consultants, etc...) to set up standards to improve thermal design of new residential buildings in tropical climat...

In early 1995, a DSM pilot initiative has been launched in the French islands of Guadeloupe and Reunion through a partnership between several public and private partners (the French Public Utility EDF, the University of Reunion Island, low cost housing companies, architects, energy consultants, etc...) to set up standards to improve thermal design of new residential buildings in tropical climat...

This short note adds some results in parallel to those given in [1] on the random variable height on the set of watermelons with wall. In this paper we prove weak convergence results for the random variables “height” and “range” on the set of watermelons without wall restriction, as well as asymptotics for the moments of the random variable height. The techniques applied are quite similar to th...

This paper focuses on lessons that can be learned from looking at the history of traditional architecture. When architects stayed aloof from the common building activities during the Industrial Revolution, a low standard of building resulted, and the needs of the people were made subservient to the needs of industry. Can we apply lessons from traditional architecture to software? This paper ref...