Archnet-IJAR: Volume 13 Issue 1

Prospects for research in architecture and urbanism

Ashraf M. Salama

The purpose of this paper is to present a brief review of the latest developments of Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research while introducing ephemeral…

Methodological research in architecture and allied disciplines: Philosophical positions, frames of reference, and spheres of inquiry

Ashraf M. Salama

The purpose of this paper is to contribute an inclusive insight into methodological research in architecture and allied disciplines and unravel aspects that include philosophical…

Evidence-based design: Documenting a research experiment in a school environment with children with autism spectrum disorder

Julie E.N. Irish

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder affecting around 1:59 children. Among other characteristics, children with ASD can be unduly sensitive to elements in…

Studio teaching experiments – spatial transitioning for autism schools

Joan Scott Love

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a teaching model involving an experimental studio project for first-year interior architecture university students.

Architect–client relationship and value addition in private residential projects

Akash Angral

The purpose of this paper is to contextualise the architect–client relationship and evaluate the factors responsible for its deterioration, and then define the impact of these…

Architecture, urban form, and assemblage aesthetics in Mexico City’s street markets

Joseph Heathcott

The purpose of this paper is to consider Mexico City’s street markets as temporary and modular architectural products that emerge out of intensive, routine and repeated…

Analytical investigation of urban housing typologies in twentieth century Istanbul

Elmira Ayşe Gür, Yurdanur Dülgeroğlu Yüksel

Turkey has been rapidly urbanizing since the 1950s. In quantitative and qualitative meanings, the problem of housing is one of the most important subjects on Turkey’s agenda…

Residential satisfaction in formal and informal neighborhoods: the case of Istanbul, Turkey

Handan Türkoğlu, Fatih Terzi, Tayfun Salihoğlu, Fulin Bölen, Gökçer Okumuş

Residential satisfaction can be viewed as a part of life satisfaction. There are many studies related to the relationship between residents’ satisfaction with their environments…

The effects of physical and social attributes of place on place attachment: A case study on Trabzon urban squares

Doruk Görkem Özkan, Serap Yilmaz

The purpose of this paper is to determine the required physical and social attributes of open spaces and demonstrate the effects of these attributes on place dependency, which is…

The authenticity of place-making: Space and character of the regenerated historic district in Msheireb, Downtown Doha (state of Qatar)

Raffaello Furlan, Attilio Petruccioli, Mohuiddin Jamaleddin

Urban theorists argue that in the post-Second World War period cities faced the increasing development of homogeneous and soullessness urban spaces. This led to the formulation of…

Adaptation of international sustainability rating tools to Bahrain: A comparative analysis of eleven systems

Fay Abdulla Al Khalifa

The damage humans caused to the environment post the industrial revolution fostered developing sustainability-rating systems – a number of evaluation instruments that focus on…

Informing sustainable building design: The importance of visualizing technical information and quantifying architectural decisions

Mathilde Landgren, Signe Skovmand Jakobsen, Birthe Wohlenberg, Lotte Bjerregaard Jensen

In recent decades there has been a focus on reducing the overall emissions from the built environment, which increases the complexity of the building design process. More…

Metamorphosis of mosque semiotics: From sacred to secular power metaphorism – the case of state mosques

Abeer Allahham

Compared with its status in Islamic history, the mosque today has become a distinctive phenomenon, perceived as an identity vessel of contemporary Islamic architecture that…

Rediscovering the essence in a classical order through analysis and deconstruction: Contradicting study through the methods of John Ruskin and Jacques Derrida

Jason E. Charalambides

The purpose of this paper is to expose a classical Vitruvian archetype and subject it to the logic of deconstruction. The process engages two opposing camps and mindsets, and…