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A Strategic Attitude to Architectural Design with a Culture-Based Psychological Approach (Case Study: Public Spaces in Kermanshah)
Recently, the quality of public spaces has become a significant issue in societies. Also, considering the human-environment relationship, creating a...
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Research Methodology for the Documentation and Analysis Phase of Industrial Architectural Heritage Preservation: The Case of “Nueva Cerámica de Orio”
Notable shortcomings and difficulties can be identified along the cultural-heritage value chain that can result in missed opportunities with respect...
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Heteronomy and Necessity: How Architects Design for Architectural Competitions
Architectural competitions have often been analysed as key institutions for the historical differentiation of architecture as an autonomous field of...
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Materiality, Architectural Re-figuration and Identity
Although the state appeared to possess autonomous power in the representation and materialization of architectural products, the practice and...
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Punishment or Transformative Rehabilitation? Architectural Design and Management of Maximum-Security Prisons in the United States and Norway
This chapter providesTransformative Rehabilitation a comparative evaluation of two divergent paradigmatic approaches to crime and criminality in the...
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Healthy, family-friendly apartment kitchen design: a study of practice in Melbourne, Australia
This study explored constraints and opportunities in apartment kitchen design for family home cooking and dining. An online audit of 115 two-bedroom...
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An Architectural Analysis of Tsunami Re-settlement Villages of South of Sri Lanka
Tsunami, displacement, fully and partially damaged houses, community infrastructure, and rehabilitation programs created a new design and build...
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Tracing Water-Land Architectural Symbolisms of the Malay Nusantara
The resonances of the archipelago’s climatic and topographical environment are found in the imageries contained within its urban iconographic...
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Architectural Traditions of Pre-Romanesque Central Plan Churches in Bohemia Within Central European Context
In general, Pre-Romanesque churches in Central Europe reflect the exchange of knowledge about, and conversion to, the Christian faith, as well as...
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Architectural typology of rural housing: a perspective of residential construction affordability and earthquake resilience in Kagera region, Tanzania
Housing practice in rural areas, particularly in develo** countries is vulnerable to natural risks. The provision of risk-resistant rural houses...
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Spatial Tensions in Architectural Design: Strategies, Projects and Visions
The essay studies the concept of tension in architectural design: how it could become a tool of intervention and in what extension tensions could be...
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A Comprehensive Investigation of Rural and Low-Rise Housing Design Quality: a Thematic and Bibliometric Analysis
The significant influence of residential spaces on quality of life and social growth has constantly encouraged a desire for design quality in...
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Enhancing the sense of place: insights from urban design practices in harbourside regeneration
The UK has made efforts to rebuild its cities’ image through harbourside regeneration projects, aiming to enhance citizens’ sense of local identity...
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Seeking Disciplinary Relevance in the Informal City: Rebuilding Architectural Practice through Community Engagement
Building is a crucial act for residents of informal settlements. Notwithstanding this normative architectural practice finds it challenging to engage...
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The Changing Fortunes of the Architectural Profession in Postwar Britain: Complexity, Technological Change, and the (Re)construction of Knowledge
Professions are one means of organizing the delivery of goods and services. In this paper, the authors consider how the power and control of...
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Concrete Materialities: Architectural Surfaces and the Cultural Sociology of Modernity
This chapter seeks to bring a cultural sociology of modernity into dialogue with a recent development known as “surface studies”. The focus here is...
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Challenges of participatory design in apartment buildings’ renovation projects in Finland
Participatory and user-centered design has taken inspiration from each other, and the classical roles of users, researchers, and designers have...
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Best living concepts for elderly homeowners: combining a stated choice experiment with architectural design
In this paper we combine the insights from social sciences and architecture to design best living concepts for a specific target group, elderly...
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Architecture and ageing: lessons learned from a cohousing project
Considering population ageing and a housing system in crisis, new residential responses for older people are being sought and claimed. To meet their...
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Design with Vulnerable Communities
This research explores the challenges that urban architectural design is going to face in the coming decades in vulnerable communities. Since the...