Open House International: Volume 31 Issue 4

Editorial: Understanding and Researching Traditional Environments

Peter Kellett, Hülya Turgut Yýldýz

During the 20^th century, accelerating developments in construction, transportion and information technologies have made it possible to create environments almost anywhere on the…

Traditional Environments, Culture and Preservation

Amos Rapoport

This paper is conceptual and theoretical and should be seen as an extended hypothesis. I begin by pointing out that reasons for seeking to preserve traditional environments are…

Necessity and Continuity: The Challenge of the Impending Crisis

Paul Oliver

‘Traditional environments’ is a term by which we embrace vernacular dwellings, functional, religious and other architectural expressions and settlements of cultures in their…

Transformation of Traditional Environments: The Spatial Geography of Culture and Built-Form in Sri Lanka

Ranjith Dayaratne

This paper examines the transformations that have been taking place in culture and built form in Sri Lanka and their spatial geography mooted by the open economic policies…

Segmentation in Traditional Madurese Architecture

Muhammad Faqih

By the beginning of the third millennium, Euro-American culture, which is usually labelled as global culture, can be encountered in almost every corner of the world, even in…

Change, Continuity and Home: The Tent, Traditional Dwelling and Squatter House in Turkey

Hülya Turgut Yýldýz

This article aims to explore the changes and continuity in housing patterns of Turkish society comparing traditional and contemporary usage. In this context, the spatial and…

Reproducing Tradition: Everyday Public Space in Popular Neighbourhoods in Mexico

Mauricio Hernandez Bonilla

In Latin American cities a great part of the urban environment has grown through self-help processes leading to informal settlements. In the Mexican context, informal settlements…

Reinforcing Traditional Values: Social, Spatial and Economic Interactions in an Indonesian Kampung

Peter Kellett, Wendy Bishop

Traditional environments consist not only of physical buildings and spaces but also the people and their activities which take place within them. This paper examines some aspects…

Tradition, Change, and Participatory Design: Re-Designing Tablita Market in Historic Cairo

Dina K. Shehayeb, Mohamed Abdel-Hafiz

This paper focuses on an Egyptian experience of participation in the design of a vegetable and fruit market. In 1999, the re-design of the Tablita Market based on community…

Encouraging Communities in Taiwan to Define Historic Preservation

Hui-min Wang, Leslie L. Shieh

In Taiwan, particularly in rural settlements, the temple serves as the religious and social centre. In the past 30 years, as Taiwan experienced rapid economic growth, modernizing…

Inventing Future Prosperity: The Buddhist Himalayan Region of Ladakh

Romi Khosla

Traditional places are on the wrong side of the divide. The wrong side of the divide is the side where the poor relatives live, where things are charming and quaint, where people…

Old Aleppo: Upgrading an Historic Residential Environment

Adli Qudsi

The Old City of Aleppo, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site, a living town of 110,000 inhabitants residing in thousands of historical courtyard houses and an important…

The Otherness of Cyberspace, Virtual Reality, and Hypertext vis-a-vis “The Traditional”

Tuğrul İlter

This article engages with the question of the otherness of cyberspace, VR, and hypertext, and how they are distinguished as “new” from “the traditional.” It begins by noting how…

Book Reviews

Yonca Hürol, Robert J. Koester, Robert J. Koester, Bruce Frankel

MANAGING URBAN DISASTERS

Palladio's Children

A SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE WORLD

FRAME & GENERIC SPACE