The rich architectural heritage of Bahrain has been subject to dilapidation and destruction as a result of rapid urbanisation and its complex physical, social and economic dimensions. The two major cities of Muharraq & ...

Claudia Estrela Porto Brasilia, Brazil's capital was officially inaugurated on April 21,1960. Past fifty years of the event, this article seeks to rescue key moments in the history of the city, the Master Plam contest won ...

Vernacular in many parts of the world, particularly those that are rapidly developing under the forces of globalization have been undergoing dramatic change. From total abandonment to superficial reconstructions, vernacular ...

The paper is based on overview of vernacular architecture of Greater Mumbai. There are numerous vernacular settlements in Greater Mumbai. Their territory can be distinguished in different parts according to the peculiar ...

The local nature and the environment of a place are important factors in creating a work of architecture that matches the functions and image of its users. These factors are related to their context and become a separate ...

It is accepted that there is a strong link between the vernacular architecture and the grand architecture traditions. The relationship between the two is studied and analyzed in different ways. The present day architectu ...

The tobacco plantation in the area of Klaten Regency (Central Java) and Jember Regency (East Java) has many huge barns which dominate the surrounding landscape since the year of 1850s, named Los. This Los is for drying ...

Scholarship on vernacular architecture typically constructs the identity of the vernacular subject in terms of a stable and holistic culture, rooted in place and community. On the other hand, the scholar of vernacular ...

The tension between modernity and tradition has played a major role in the subjugation of the Palestinian populations of Israel. It has confirmed the State of Israel's insistence that their backwardness renders them unfit ...

Following a brief stint of independent-rule from 1948 under a class of post-colonial third culture, a political breakthrough came in 1956, when a faction of local-elite with a strong nationalist agenda came into power in ...