The latest issue of ArchNet-IJAR, a fully refereed architectural
research journal edited by Professor Ashraf Salama, is available in the
Digital Library. Articles in IJAR Volume 6, Issue 2 cover a considerable
number of topics that include engaging history in architectural
education, architectural criticism, skyscrapers and platemaking, public
spaces in Mexican cities, assessment of an urban school in India,
sustainable urban landscape, and unresolved rooftop . This edition also
features a special section of review and trigger articles that present
issues relevant to democratic design, neighborhood design based on
historic precedents, systems thinking in architectural design studio,
and architectural education in Afghanistan.
Archnet-IJAR is a fully refereed architectural research journal edited by Professor Ashraf Salama. The Journal is indexed and is listed in several databases, including Avery index to Architectural Periodicals, EBSCO-Current Abstracts-Art and Architecture, INTUTE, Directory of Open Access Journals, Pro-Quest, Scopus-Elsevier and several other university library databases. To inquire about contributing articles for future issues of IJAR, please contact the chief editor at archnet.ijar.editor@gmail.com or asalama@archnetijaronline.org
Table of Contents
Refereed Regular Papers
Mythic
Foundations:
Engaging History for Architecture Education (7-23)
Tammy Gaber
Architectural
Criticism in Practice: From Affective to Effective Experience (24-42)
Aaron T. Davis and Wolfgang F.E. Preiser
Skyscrapers
and Placemaking: Supporting Local Culture and Identity (43-64)
Kheir Al-Kodmany and Mir M. Ali
The
(re)Construction of Public Space in Today’s Mexican City (65-78)
Mauricio Hernández Bonilla
Through
the Eyes of the Learner: A Critical Evaluation of an Urban Indian School (79-97)
Smita Khan and Rajashree Kotharkar
Sustainable
Urban Landscape: An Approach for Assessing and Appropriating Indicators (98-114)
Ahmed Mohamed Amin
The
Unresolved Rooftop (115-131)
Simone Medio
Review and Trigger Articles
A
Sustained Quest for Democracy in Design and Planning Decision Making Book
Review: ‘Democratic Design: Participation Case Studies in Urban and Small Town
Environments by Henry Sanoff (132-134)
Ashraf M. Salama
Neighborhood
Test Design Based on Historic Precedents (135-148)Besim S. Hakim
S m y r n a S t u d i o - Temporal and Urban
Peripheries in Systems Thinking (149-157)
Gudjon Thor
Erlendsson and Gul Kacmaz Erk
Architectural Education in Afghanistan: Evolution, Challenges and Opportunities (158-180)
Abdul Wasay
Najimi
