SusTED' 13: Sustainable Tropical Environmental Design Conference 2013

SusTED' 13: Sustainable Tropical Environmental Design Conference 2013

18-19 December 2013, Fakulti Rekabentuk dan Senibina
University Putra Malaysia 

INNOVATION IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Today, the built environment faces the steep task of answering complex questions pertaining to sustainability, performance, and adaptability. The challenge is to come out with innovative thinking in resolving these issues either in the form of new ideas, methods, design or product and technologies. The adaptation of innovation in the built environment provides alternative strategies in creating a more sustainable living environment. The SusTED 13 this year will focus on establishing coherence of the built environment in research and innovation, by bringing both academics and practitioners to share their views and experiences. The theme, ‘Innovation in the Built Environment’, draws attention to the awareness, appreciation and adaptation towards innovative means in shaping the future of built environment and society. The focus of discussion concerns interdisciplinary approach that contributes towards innovative solutions of environmental issues.


SusTED Secretariat
Faculty of Design and Architecture
Universiti Putra Malaysia,
43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Tel: +603-89464025/4011 (Azra/Jurina)
Fax: +603-89464047

Contacts
Dr. Mohd Fairuz Shahidan (Conference and Papers info.)
Tel: +603-894 64082/Fax: +6 (0) 89464005
Email: mohdfairuz@putra.upm.edu.my

Dr. Dalilah Dahlan (Papers info.)
Email: dahlannd@yahoo.com

Ar. Dr. Farzad Pour Rahimian (Papers info.)
Tel: +44 (0) 1772 89 3965 / Fax: +44 (0) 1772 89 2916
Email: FPour-Rahimian@uclan.ac.uk

The 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers  
14-17 May 2013, Oslo, Norway
 
Organised by  

• Faculty of Technology, Art and Design, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences
• DRS (Design Research Society)
• CUMULUS (the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media)

This international conference is a springboard for sharing ideas and concepts about contemporary design education research. Contributors are invited to submit research that deals with different facets of contemporary approaches to design education research. All papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed. This conference is open to research in any aspect and discipline of design education.


Call for papers 
http://www.hioa.no/eng/content/download/17005/184861/file/call_DRS_CUMULUS_Oslo_2013.pdf
Conference Website
http://www.hioa.no/eng/content/view/full/11448 

Conference theme

Design Learning for Tomorrow - Design Education from Kindergarten to PhD
Designed artefacts and solutions influence our lives and values, both from a personal and societal perspective. Designers, decision makers, investors and consumers hold different positions in the design process, but they all make choices that will influence our future visual and material culture. To promote sustainability and meet global challenges for the future, professional designers are dependent on critical consumers and a design literate general public.  For this purpose design education is important for all. We propose that design education in general education represents both a foundation for professional design education and a vital requirement for developing the general public’s competence for informed decision making.

We invite submissions along the following themes:

• Philosophy of design education
• Design curriculum
• Design knowledge
• Design education for non-designers
• Research informed designed education – Design education informing research
• Multidisciplinary design education
• Challenges in design education methods
• Assessment
• Design continuum
• eLearning and Design Education
• Internationalisation of Design Education
• We are also seeking expression of interest to conduct workshops and symposia.

CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST CAUMME 2012

CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST - Global Impacts and Local Challenges


CAUMME 2012

International Symposium
Organized Jointly between Yıldız Technical University and Qatar University


Prof. Dr. Murat SOYGENİŞ, Symposium Chair,
Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Yıldız Technical University, Turkey
Prof. Dr. Ashraf M. SALAMA, Symposium co-Chair,
Head of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Qatar University, Qatar

Since the beginning of the new millennium, it was apparent that a new phase influencing the development of architecture and urbanism in the Mediterranean and the Middle East had begun, when rulers, decision makers, and top government officials developed stronger interest in architecture and development. With such a sturdy interest many cities in this region are experiencing rapid growth coupled with fast track urbanization processes, and marked by large scale work, learning and residential environments, and mixed use developments. This is witnessed from Istanbul’s intensive urbanization process to Abu-Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island Development to Bahrain Financial Harbor, and from Kuwait’s City of Silk to the future city of Qatar, Lusail. Notably, some cities have acquired a geo-strategic importance. Through the shift of global economic forces, they have developed to central hubs between old economies of Western Europe and the rising economies of Asia. In the context of international competition between cities new challenges are emerging.

For More information

Conference Poster
http://www.mmr.yildiz.edu.tr/login/sys/admin/announcement/img/1324996093_CAUMME2012_poster.pdf

Conference Call for Papers

http://www.mmr.yildiz.edu.tr/login/sys/admin/announcement/img/1324996093_CAUMME_2012_Call_for_Papers_1.pdf 

Urban Dynamics in the Gulf Region: Challenges, Options, Horizons

Urban Dynamics in the Gulf Region: Challenges, Options, Horizons

Seminar

Date: Monday 31st October, 2011
Time: 15:30- 18:00
Venue: Vorhoelzer Zentrum

Chair of Spatial and Territorial Development
Department of Architecture
Munich University of Technology


In the past 20 years, the Arabian Gulf has urbanized at an unprecedented pace. From around the globe, tens of thousands of people have flocked to this region; attracted mainly by the availability of jobs and economic opportunities; the size of this populace fluctuates in sync with the prevailing economic climate. Today, like elsewhere in the world, the region is feeling the grunt of the global economic downturn. The anxiety over the bursting of the Dubai bubble, while unstated, lurks in the background. However, governments of the region continue to invest huge surpluses in the local built environment with the hope of acquiring geo-strategic importance for their cities and sustaining a globally connected status. It is questionable, though, to what degree the construction intensive experiments of urbanization have brought full-fledged urbanism. In the global competition for retaining a productive populace, cities of the Gulf are lagging behind.

Hence, beyond surplus investment, the logic of urbanization in the Gulf region is difficult to decipher. Has the region still not overcome the “Dubai factor”? Beyond the record breaking and headline attracting physical developments, what are the options for cities of the Gulf and what lies in the horizon of their urban development?
 
Our two guest speakers, Prof Amer Moustafa of the American University of Sharjah (AUS) and Prof Ashraf Salama of Qatar University (QU) will share their insights on urban dynamics of the Gulf region. Prof Moustafa will discuss urban developments in Dubai in a presentation, titled, “Audacious Dubai: City Making Under Post Urban Conditions”. Prof. Salama will present his perspective from Doha in a presentation, titled, “Image and Place Making in the City of Doha”. The presentations will be followed by, what will surely be a lively discussion.


(Text: Alaily-Mattar)

Middle East's Leading Architects Forum

Middle East's Leading Architects Forum

September 16-19, 2011

Shangri La Barr Al Jissah, Muscat, Oman

Arc-Middle East -- What is it

http://www.arc-me.com/index.html

Now in its second year, Arc-Middle East is an Innovative, one to one meetings forum and conference for Principals of the Middle East and North Africa's largest and most active architect firms. Proven in Europe, Asia and North America, Arc-Middle East is a truly effective opportunity for time pressured executives to meet with and be educated by senior directors of supplier companies, learn about important developments across the region and to network with their peers from many countries across the region.

Seminar Program

A meticulously researched programme presented by industry experts and leaders on subjects including: The Delivery Of Sustainability In Today’s Construction Sector, from Dr Alex Amato of Davis Langdon; The New Reality For Architecture Firms and How Principals Will Need To Adapt, from David Koren of Perkins Eastman; and an interactive panel discussion comprised of the leading Real Estate Developers from across the region.

BOND Events and Arc-Middle East 2011 are official AIA CE providers.

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Middle East's Leading Architects Forum

September 16-19, 2011

Shangri La Barr Al Jissah, Muscat, Oman

Series of Seminars that address timely and important issues including

Seminar 1:

Much Ado About Carbon, The Delivery Of Sustainability In Today’s Construction Sector:

Dr Alex Amato: Associate, Davis Langdon

Seminar 2:

Real Estate Developers Panel Discussion: An In Depth Discussion Focusing On;

Panel Speakers Deepak Jain - Head of Strategic Consulting at Jones Lang LaSelle, Dubai; Mohammed Ahmad Al Emadi - Associate Director Real Estate Development – Barwa Real Estate Qatar and Barwa Al Sadd General Manager; Gurjit Singh - COO, Sorouh Real Estate, Abu Dhabi; Chaired by Jeff Willis - Associate Director Arup & Vice Chairman of Emirates GBC

Seminar 3:
Knowledge and Design: Towards Responsive Architectural Pedagogy and Practice:

Dr Ashraf Salama: Professor & Founding Head of Architecture and Urban Planning at Qatar University

Seminar 4:

A Sense of Purpose: The New Reality For Architecture Firms And How Principals Will Need To Adapt:
David Koren, Associate Principal and Director of Marketing, Perkins Eastman

Seminar 5:
Risky Business - How can Contracts Assist you in Emerging and Volatile Markets?
David McElveney, Partner of Projects & Construction, Clyde & Co

CFP: Sustaining Urbanism in Cities of the Arabian Gulf: Urban Space and the Knowledge Economy

http://www.aag.org/

Call for papers


Sustaining Urbanism in Cities of the Arabian Gulf: Urban Space and the Knowledge Economy


Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 2012,
New York City, USA
February, 24-28, 2012



Organizers:
Alain Thierstein, Munich Technical University
Ashraf M. Salama, Qatar University
Florian Wiedmann, Qatar University
Nina Alaily-Mattar, Munich Technical University
Sven Conventz, Munich Technical University


Special Session:
Cities on the Arabian Gulf have recently acquired a geo-strategic importance. With accelerating pace in the past 20 years, huge surpluses have been heavily invested in the local built environment with the hope of fostering the globally connected status of these cities.

The unstated anxiety over the bursting of the Dubai bubble instigated the region to brace itself for a time in which surplus might not be so abundant. Towards that end, visions are drawn, in which these cities become players in diversified global economies, chief among them, the Knowledge Economy. The underlying rationale is that locations that produce, service and maintain the Knowledge Economy have high levels of value added in the long run.

This session discusses the two domains of Knowledge Economy and the built environment within the context of the cities of the Arabian Gulf. It asks the following:

Beyond the record breaking and headline attracting physical developments, how can these cities sustain and enhance their position in the global competition of geographic locations? What are the city specific drivers and impediments for being a sustainable player in the global Knowledge Economy? How do the cities of the region score in the global competition for attracting and retaining creative talent? Have the cities overcome the Dubai factor? Are there any lessons learnt from the construction intensive Dubai experiment? As cities seek to play a role in the Knowledge Economy, what imperatives for cooperation and complementation exist in the Arabian Gulf region?

Submitting papers

Both conceptual and empirical papers are welcome, and we look forward to receiving proposals that make use of a variety of data sources, scales and analyses and methodological backgrounds. Interested participants should direct their expression of interest, questions and or/ title and abstracts of 250 words or less to Alain Thierstein (thierstein@tum.de), Ashraf Salama (asalama@qu.edu.qa), Florian Wiedmann (florian_wiedmann@yahoo.de), Nina Alaily-Mattar (n.alaily-mattar@tum.de) or Sven Conventz (conventz@tum.de), by August, 1st. Contributors will have to register for the conference and submit their abstract the regular way (through the AAG website: http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/register_to_attend), and should then send the registration code (PIN) they receive to us. Please note that you have to submit the abstract AND also pay, and then your PIN is activated. Once everyone has done this, we register for a special session, and mention all registration codes that will be in our session(s).

IAPS International Symposium 2011: Continuity and Change of Built Environments

IAPS-International Association: People-Environment Studies

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM 2011
October 10-14, 2011, Daegu, Korea
IAPS-CSBE & HOUSING Networks

Continuity and Change of Built Environments: Housing, Culture and Space across Lifespans

Complex and fundamental changes in demographic, economic, social, cultural, technological and environmental conditions are influencing people and their built environments their lives and cultures all around the world. To ensure a functional continuity of housing and space across the lifespan and the construction of housing to meet specific local requirements, a reinterpretation of accumulated experience and knowledge is required for future developments. Drawing on lessons from the past, research in current contexts and creative foresight, this symposium will consider possibilities for future housing, culture, and space for people, lifestyles, cultures and populations undergoing change.


Organized by IAPS Culture and Space in the Built Environment and Housing Networks.

Download Call for Papers here
>> http://www.iaps2011symposium.kr/down/call.pdf

Visit Conference Website here
>> http://www.iaps2011symposium.kr/

Making Cities Livable

48th IMCL Conference on Planning Healthy & Child-Friendly Communities
Charleston, SC, USA October 17-21, 2010





International Making Cities Livable Council & City of Charleston, SC.
http://www.livablecities.org/

The conference will focus on how to design healthy communities, and how to improve children's health and development by improving the built environment, and making nature spaces and community places accessible. The conference will bring together 350-400 delegates - elected officials, practitioners and scholars in planning, public health, urban design, landscape architecture, architecture, transportation planning, pediatrics, child development, and land use development from around the world to present health effects of the built/natural environment, health impact assessment tools, guidelines for designing healthy neighborhoods, and examples of cutting-edge improvements in the way developers build, and how cities reshape existing neighborhoods.

Contact
Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Ph.D.(Arch.)
Director, International Making Cities Livable Conferences
Suzanne.Lennard@LivableCities.org

Conference: The Cultural Role of Architecture

The Cultural Role of Architecture
June 23rd - 25th 2010
University of Lincoln

What role can architecture play as a form of cultural expression? What is architecture capable of communicating in its current means of production? How does architecture participate in cultural and individual identity formation? What role can contemporary architecture play in the expression and development of the ideas and values of a culture, and in the intellectual development of the individual?

Keynote speakers
Alberto Pérez-Gómez – McGill University
Marco Frascari - Carleton University
Hasan-Uddin Khan - Roger Williams University
Renée Tobe – University of East London

Click here for the conference program
http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/conferences/cul_role_arch/Programme2.pdf
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48th International Making Cities Livable Conference on True Urbanism:

CALL FOR PAPERS
48th International Making Cities Livable Conference onTrue Urbanism:
Planning Healthy, and Child-Friendly Communities
Charleston, SC, October 17-21, 2010
Co-Sponsors: City of Charleston & IMCL Council


This conference focuses on ways to improve children’s health and development by improving the built environment. The conference will bring together 350-400 delegates - elected officials, practitioners and scholars in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, planning, land use development, public health, pediatrics and child development from around the world to begin to develop tools for changing the way developers build, and how cities reshape existing neighborhoods.

Those wishing to present papers on topics listed below should submit a 250 word abstract for consideration before November 15, 2009. Please submit online, following the Call for Papers Guidelines on the web at http://www.livablecities.org/conferences/forthcoming-conferences/18.html.

Your application form should state title of paper, name of author, affiliation and full contact information. Paper abstracts must be prepared for blind peer review: they should include title of paper, and omit identifying information. Notification will be sent within 4 weeks of submission. Final papers will be due June 15, 2010. Accepted papers must be presented in person at the conference and will be published in the digital conference proceedings. Selected papers will also be published in Documentation Sets on focused topics.

Paper topics include:

Healthy cities
Health and the built environment. Urban planning for physical and social health. Place-based strategies for healthy living.

Child-friendly communities
Walkable, bikable streets. Making nature and community accessible for children. Neighborhood design for children’s independent mobility.

Nature in the urban environment
Designing and restoring nature classrooms, natural playgrounds, gardens, parks, wild and incidental nature. Restoring biodiversity.

Rebuilding place-based community
Facilitating community through land use and urban design.

Public places for social life and civic engagement
Designing and reviving town squares for community social life. Civic plazas to support civic engagement. Beauty and amenity to generate well-being.

Mixed-use urban fabric
New neighborhoods with mixed-use fabric. Urban regeneration through mixed-use infill and restoration. New designs for human scale multifamily mixed-use.

Community participation
Children and youth participate in public art, neighborhood improvement, restoring nature. Social consequences: building skills and self confidence, cross-generational networks, etc.

Urban villages and towns
Designing complete towns. Transforming suburban malls into mixed-use town centers. Creating transit oriented urban villages.

Traditional architecture and town planning
New traditional urban fabric. Historical models. Regional architecture and identity. Can we learn from Europe?

Green buildings, green neighborhoods
Sustainable land-use planning and urban design. Sustainable community development. Green buildings and health.

Innovative teaching models
Teaching public health and planning. Human aspects of architecture & urban design.

Visit the website at http://www.livablecities.org/conferences/forthcoming-conferences/18.html

Urban RESET: Disclosing the Immanent Potentials of Urban Spaces

urban RESET

Disclosing the immanent potentials of urban spaces

Conference at the HafenCity University in Hamburg, October 22–23, 2009

Urban reality constantly requires fundamentally new spatial arrangements in order to face ever emerging challenges. Many of the urbanistic forms imprinted in contemporary cities have been shaped by the needs and constraints of the industrial period. Although they have been focal points of urban life at the time they were built today they have lost the functions and abilities they once had. They could be described as voids – although they still cannot be missed due to their sheer dimensions.

At the same time there is growing evidence that such remnants of the past are being reread in innovative ways, for example within projects such as the Toni-Areal in Zurich or the Ile-de-Nantes in Nantes. Both refrain from knee-jerk tabula rasa-strategies; instead they investigate the options offered by the existing urban texture and foster its continuous transformation. In these processes architectural creativity plays a key role. It explores existing structures from unconventional perspectives und reinterprets them in the context of current challenges – mostly together with stakeholders from other backgrounds. In reshaping urban spaces, reprogramming buildings and revising the logics of urbanistic predeterminations, architecture is able to reveal the hidden potentials of existing structures and to reorient everyday urban life: In this sense architecture provokes an urban RESET.

Architectural or urban design interventions powerful enough to cause an urban RESET differ fundamentally from “critical reconstruction” or the revitalization of urban brownfield sites. They rather suggest an independent category of creativity: a type of conceptual design practice, which has the potential to generate lasting effects at city level. The specific abilities of this kind of urban design interventions make it worthwhile examining the design and conceptual processes involved on multiple levels. In urban RESET there seem to be three constitutive and interdependent elements: RECONSIDER means a novel mode of reflecting the urban structure, its typologies and open spaces – entirely independent of previous functional limitations. RELAUNCHING is the conceptual reinterpretation and the physical inscription of the new reading. REINTEGRATION finally reconnects the altered space with the urban context through built elements on different scales and innovative ways of activating previously untapped potentials.

The conference urban RESET at the HafenCity University Hamburg intends to bring various topics indicating an urban RESET together. It aims at launching a cross-disciplinary debate on procedures and strategies necessary to retrieve the immanent potentials of large-scale urban structures using case studies as a starting point. Our Call for Papers addresses architects, urban designers and urban planners, historians, social and cultural scientists as well as political scientists and economists. Contributions may focus on single objects, compare multiple interventions or concentrate on specific aspects of urban RESET. These results will explore how urban design potentially can open novel fields of options and opportunities within the existing urban reality.

The results of this conference will be documented in a publication or possibly in a special issue of ARCH+ journal. Abstracts for contributions (max. 1.500 characters) may be submitted with a CV (approx. 300 characters) until May 5, 2009 to: reset@metropolitanculture.net or alternatively to

Professor Angelus Eisinger
Geschichte und Kultur der Metropole
HafenCity Universität Hamburg
Averhoffstr. 38
D-22085 Hamburg

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING DESIGN “SBD08”

Community Technical Housing Services Association (COMTECHSA) U.K

&
Global Built Environment Review (GBER)

Based on the current demand for sustainable design professionals and the future need for environmentally sustainable education in Pakistan & UK, a collaborative post-graduate program; Masters of Architecture in “Sustainable Design” is proposed. Sustainable Design Program, Faculty of Architecture, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan and Edge Hill University, Lancashire, UK has agreed to establish and design this program jointly. Higher Education Commission Pakistan and British Council Pakistan are promoting this program under Joint Higher Education Links Program (JHELP). The goal of the program is to educate students in the area of Sustainable Architecture Design with an innovative program that is truly unique. This initiative will lead to a master’s degree program starting in 2009.

As part of this initiative the first seminar is being organized at COMTECHSA, Liverpool to lay the foundation for the development of a truly unique curriculum for this Masters program.

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING DESIGN “SBD08”

Seminar Secretariat UK
Ar. Dr. Tasleem Shakur (Link Coordinator & Program Director)
Dr. Linda Rush (Asst. Link Coordinator)
Ar Galib Khan (Community Architect; COMTECHSA)
Jamie Halsall (Global Built Environment Review)
Edge Hill University, Lancashire L39 4QP, United Kingdom
shakurt@edgehill.ac.uk; tasleemshakur@yahoo.co.uk ; www.edgehill.ac.uk

Seminar Secretariat Pakistan
Ar. Muhammad Ali Tirmizi (Link Coordinator & Program Director)
Ar. Syed Faisal Sajjad (Asst. Link Coordinator)
Ar. Prof. Fauzia Qureshi (Head; Dept. of Architecture; NCA)
Ar. Dr. Shakeel Qureshi (Associate Prof; Dept. of Architecture; NCA)
Sustainable Design Program; Faculty of Architecture;
National College of Arts, 4 The Mall, Lahore-54500; Pakistan
tirmizi@nca.edu.pk; tirmizi@aaschool.ac.uk; www.nca.edu.pk

Archnet-IJAR, Special Issue on Traditional Spas / Hammams in the Mediterranean: Rediscovering a Forgotten Heritage

Special Issue Announcement

Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research
Academic Peer Reviewed/Double Refereed Journal published on the World Wide Web three times a year

http://www.archnet-ijar.org

http:// archnet.org/gws/IJAR/
http://archnet.org/library/documents/collection.jsp?collection_id=1543

Traditional Spas / Hammams in the Mediterranean:

Rediscovering a Forgotten Heritage

A Special Issue- November 2008
Guest Editor Dr. Magda Sibley
School of Architecture - The University of Liverpool- UK

Based on a selection of papers presented at the International Conference to be held in Damascus under the title

The Traditional Hammam, a Gift from the Past for the Future
Damascus, Syria, July 13 – 16, 2008

Organised by the IFPO Institut Français du Proche-Orient and OIKODROM - The Vienna Institute for Urban Sustainability

This conference is the final dissemination meeting of the multi-disciplinary research consortium (12 institutions from both Europe and the Mediterranean countries) that has been working together for the last three yeas (since September 2005) on the HAMMAM project. The project was initiated and scientifically co-ordinated by Oikodrom, the Vienna Institute for Urban Sustainability; supported and financed by the European Commission’s 6th Framework Program Specific Targeted Research Projects Contract No.: 517704 under the name:

HAMMAM, Aspects and Multidisciplinary Methods of Analysis for the Mediterranean Region

The Islamic bath house Hammam is a central place of cultural heritage in the Mediterranean cities. Traditionally, the Hammam is a place of complex urban and societal relations with various functions: a support for health care and hygiene, a meeting place for merchants, one of the rare meeting places for women in the Islamic context, a place for relaxation and leisure, a place for confidential political discussions and a place for artistic and ceremonial activities. The Hammam also forms an important heritage building with a rich architecture and valuable lessons in environmental design. However, it has been neglected for a long time as studies on this building type have been rare and very few examples of restored and re-used historic Hammams exist today. In most Mediterranean cities, these historic buildings are on the way of disappearing, as many of them have been either demolished or totally ignored and forgotten. With the disappearance of them, Islamic cities are about to loose a major feature of their cultural heritage with detrimental consequences on the local urban, societal and architectural qualities.

Field work has been carried out over the last two years on seven case study hammams in six different Mediterranean cities (Cairo, Damascus, Fez, Constantine, Ankara and Gaza). Multi-disciplinary teams in collaboration with local stakeholders have worked together in the location of each case study building in order to increase national and international awareness about the importance of this heritage building and develop future scenarios for its the safeguard and its sustainable re-use.
See www.hammams.org
http://hammams.info
http://www.liv.ac.uk/lsa/research_new/hammams/index.htm

Underlying the Hammams/ Traditional Spas Theme, the papers in this special issue of Archnet-IJAR will focus on the following topics

• Architectural typologies and urban morphologies across the Mediterranean Region
• Vernacular architecture and construction and challenges for conservation and restoration
• Thermal performance and Lessons of Environmental Sustainability
• Socio-culture and the Intangible Heritage
• Economy and Management
• Future scenarios for the sustainable re-use of historic Hammam buildings

Other topics will also be considered.

Authors outside the HAMMAM consortium are also invited to submit papers for this special issue. Please e-mail an abstract to Dr Magda Sibley- msibley@liv.ac.uk no later than 30th of June 2008. Deadlines for receiving full papers to be refereed and considered for publication in Archnet-IJAR, Vol 2, Issue 3, November 2008 is September 1, 2008

Archnet-IJAR is published and archived by ARCHNET, the most comprehensive online community for architects, planners, urban designers, interior designers, landscape architects, and scholars working in these fields, developed at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in close cooperation with, and with the full support of The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network.

...Chief Editor: Ashraf Salama, Advisory Board: Attilio Petruccioli; Besim Hakim; Hashim Sarkis; Henry Sanoff; Jamel Akbar; Mohamad Al-Asad; Michael Crosbie; Nasser Rabbat; Nicholas Wilkinson; Nikos Salingaros; Peter Rowe; Suha Ozkan; William Mitchell, Editorial-Scientific Board: Akhtar Chauhan; Aleya Abel-Hadi; Ali Cengizkan; Amer Moustafa; Anne Beamish; Budi Sukada; Dalila Al-Kerdani; Donatella Mazzoleni; Eman El-Nachar; Fuad Mallick; Hulya Turgut; Ihab Elzeyadi; M. Alaa Mandour; Malika Bose; Magda Sibley; Mashary Al-Naim; Peter Kellett; Rabee Reffat; Yasser El-Shehstawy; Yasser Mahgoub.
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