THEORY AND METHOD IN ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
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Much of the confusion and disorientation in contemporary architecture is caused by the failure to find an alternative to a
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market-oriented individualism, fashionable nihilism or
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picture-book historicism. The new series of publications published by ICAR, Department
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of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Polytechnic University of
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Progetto sviluppato nell’ambito del Programma di
Bari, formerly the proceedings of international symposia held at Progetto Integrato Diarcheo | Sub-Progetto Siwa
M.I.T., provides a forum for debates on theory and design for Islamic societies. The objective is to develop a solid and well-defined design
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methodology based on the rigorous analysis of the existing urban fabric. In the design process historical consciousness would play a decisive role. The field is not limited to the Dar al Ministero degli Affari Esteri
Islam, the land administrated by Islamic law, but includes the Western built landscape, since today's intellectual and physical mobility makes it more difficult to circumscribe cultural
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territories. The range of issues discussed includes the single architectural object as well as the urban fabric and the landscape, due to the
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integration of the different scales of the built environment. In this vision the building is seen as one element within a larger context, rather than as an isolated aesthetic object.
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Central themes of debate are the morphological study of the city, either as a reading or operative design, as well as the restoration and conservation of the architectural patrimony.
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a cura di | edited by Attilio Petruccioli, Calogero Montalbano
In the first series the following titles appeared between 1994 and 1998: TYPOLOGICAL PROCESS AND DESIGN THEORY, Rethinking the XIX Century, and Bukhara, the Myth and the Architecture.
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In the second series after 2006 appeared: AFTER AMNESIA. Learning from the Islamic Mediterranean Urban Fabric and BEYOND THE WALL, Notes on Multicultural Mediterranean
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Landscape.
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Editorial board: Samer Akkach
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Stanford Anderson Claudio D'Amato Guerrieri Farrokh Derakhshani
Unione delle Università Mediterranee - UNIMED
Renata Holod
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