Call for Papers: Special Issue of International Journal of Architectural Research

Call for Papers: Special Issue of International Journal of Architectural Research

Reconstruction of built environment after natural hazard and conflict induced disasters.. 

Guest Editor: Dr Jason von Melding

SPACE: School of Planning, Architecture, and Civil Engineering

Queen's University Belfast, 

United Kingdom.

Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research, Volume 6, Issue 2, July 2012

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.

The IJAR July 2012 issue is available for download here. An archive of past and present articles are collected in a special section of ArchNet-IJAR section in the Digital Library.
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

Architecture and Urbanism in the Arabian Peninsula -- A FOCUS ON THE CITY OF DOHA, QATAR

Architecture and Urbanism in the Arabian Peninsula with a focus on the city of Doha are featured in a new series of publications.

Salama, Ashraf M. and Gharib, Remah Y. (2012): A Perceptual Approach for Understanding Urban Diversity in the City of Doha. In: Special Issue on Urban Diversity: Paradoxes and Realities, Guest Edited by Ashraf M. Salama and Alain Thierstein, Open House International, Volume 37, Issue 2, Urban International Press,  Gateshead, United Kingdom.
http://www.openhouse-int.com/abdisplay.php?xvolno=37_2_3

Salama, Ashraf M. (2012): Narrating Doha’s Contemporary Architecture: The then, the now, the drama, the theater, and the performance. Digital Architectural Papers, Issue 8: Middle East 1: Conditions for an Architectural Practice. ETH-Chair: Josep Lluis Mateo. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.
http://www.architecturalpapers.ch/index.php?ID=64

Salama, Ashraf M. (2012): Architectural Identity Demystified: Visual Voices from the Arab World. In. P. Emmons, J. Lomholt, and J. S. Hendrix (eds.), The Cultural Role of Architecture: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives. Routledge: London.
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415783415/

Salama, Ashraf M. (2012): Assessing Qatar University’s Campus Outdoor Spaces: Design Intentions Versus Users’ Reactions. In S. Mallory-Hill, W. Preiser and C. Watson (eds.), Enhancing Building Performance. John Wiley and Sons, New York, pp.139-150. ISBN # 978-0-470-65759-1 
http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470657596.html

Salama, Ashraf M. (2011):  Identity Flows: The Arabian Peninsula, Emerging Metropolises. In: Luis Fernández-Galiano (ed.), Atlas Architectures of the 21st Century - Africa and Middle East. Fundación BBVA, Madrid, pp. 170-225. ISBN # 978-84-92937-19-6
http://www.fbbva.es/TLFU/tlfu/ing/areas/cultura/publicaciones/libros/fichalibro/index.jsp?codigo=633#arriba

Salama, Ashraf M. (2011): Towards a Responsive Architectural and Urban Education for Understanding of and Intervening in Islamic Societies, Reflections on a New Post Graduate Program at the Education City, Doha, Qatar. Lonaard Magazine is a peer-reviewed periodical, publication of Lonaard Group in London, Issue 4, Volume 1, July 2011, pp. 130-137. ISSN: 2045-8150
http://qu.academia.edu/AshrafSalama/Papers/880419/Towards_a_Responsive_Architectural_and_Urban_Education_for_Understanding_of_and_Intervening_in_Islamic_Societies_Ashraf_M._Salama_2011_

Wiedmann, Florian, Salama, Ashraf M. and Thierstein, Alain (2012): Urban Evolution of the City of Doha: The Impact of Economic Transformations on Urban Structures. In: METU-JFA, Journal of the Faculty of Architecture-Middle East Technical University, Volume 29, Issue 2, pp. 35-61.
http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/advop/35-61.pdf  

Wiedmann, Florian, Salama, Ashraf M. and Thierstein, Alain (2012): A Framework for Investigating Urban Qualities in Emerging Knowledge Economies. In: International Journal of Architectural Research: Archnet-IJAR, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp.42-56.
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=12785

IJAR @ Five Years made it to Scopus-Elsevier: International Journal of Architectural Research, Volume 5, Issue 3, November 2011.

With the launch of the third issue of 2011, ArchNet-IJAR completes it's fifth year of publication. The November, 2011 issue of ArchNet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research is available for download here. http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=12399

An archive of past and present articles appears in a special ArchNet-IJAR section in the Digital Library. http://archnet.org/library/documents/collection.jsp?collection_id=1543

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

Download complete publication from Archnet Digital Library http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=12399

Download and see record of individual articles from the Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=journal&issn=19946961&volume=5&issue=3&date=2011&uiLanguage=en

Table of Contents

Refereed Regular Papers

Factors Influencing Public Attachment to Mosques in Malaysia 07/24
Mina Najafi and Mustafa Kamal Bin Mohd Shariff

The Significance of User Participation in Architectural Design: The Case of Nicosia Social Housing Complex 25/39
Rafooneh Mokhtarshahi Sani, Bahar Ulucay, and Pinar Ulucay

Revitalizing Historic Cairo: Three Decades of Policy Failure 40/57
Remah Y. Gharib

Post Occupancy Evaluation of Shared Circulation Spaces of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Dokuz Eylul University 58/80
Rengin Zengel and Ilkim S. Kaya

Architectural Form Creation in the Design Studio: Physical Modeling as an Effective Design Tool 81/92
Wael Abdelhameed

Intellectual Property in Architecture: Between Legislations and Ethical Manifestations with Special Reference to the Egyptian Case 93/106
Nehad Mohamed Eweda


Review and Trigger Articles

Architecture and Design Research: Reflections in Relation to the Design Process 107/115
Navid Gohardani

Place Identity in 21st Century Architecture in South Korea 116/133
Hee Sun (Sunny) Choi

Book Review: Designing for Play, by Barbara E. Hendricks 134/136
Remah Y. Gharib

LONAARD: A New Art and Architecture Peer Reviewed Periodical - London

LONAARD: A New Periodical based in London

Lonaard Magazine is an art and architecture peer-reviewed periodical founded in London by Dr Waleed Al Sayed and Dr Mashary Al-Naim since 2008

http://www.lonaard.com/index.html

Over the past year, the journal has produced high quality issues addressing timey and pressing issues of interest to the international community of scholars, academics, and practitioners in architecture, planning, design, and crafts, with a focus on the Arab World.

Previous Issues include

Handicrafts http://www.lonaard.com/magazineflash1.html 

Arab City http://www.lonaard.com/issue2/issue2.html 

Mosque Architecture http://www.lonaard.com/issue3/index.html 

The Paradigm of 'Islamic' Architecture http://www.lonaard.com/issue4/index.html 

Current call for papers include:

Political Architecture http://www.lonaard.com/magazine5.html  

Architecture: Urbanism, History and Conservation http://www.lonaard.com/magazine.html  

For more information contact:

info@lonaard.com 

International Journal of Islamic Architecture

International Journal of Islamic Architecture

A New Journal by Intellect

The International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) is intended for those interested in urban design and planning, architecture, and landscape design in the historic Islamic world, encompassing the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia, but also the more recent geographies of Islam in its global dimensions. The main emphasis is on detailed analysis of the practical, historical and theoretical aspects of architecture, with a focus on both design and its reception. The journal is also specifically interested in contemporary architecture and urban design in relation to social and cultural history, geography, politics, aesthetics, technology, and conservation. Spanning across cultures and disciplines, IJIA seeks to analyze and explain issues related to the built environment throughout the regions covered. The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary nature of this journal will significantly contribute to the knowledge in this field.

Journal Website: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=204/
Download Call for Papers http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/MediaManager/File/IJIA%20Call%20for%20Papers.pdf
Download Guidelines for Manuscript Submission http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/MediaManager/File/IJIA%20Notes%20for%20Contributors.pdf

Director and Founding Editor

Mohammad Gharipour

mohammad@gatech.edu

Academic Editor
Hasan-uddin Khan

Associate Editor

Deeba Haiderijia@intellectbooks.com 

Reviews Editor

Nancy Um

nancyum@binghamton.edu 

Editorial Assistant

Marika Snider

Open House International -- Call for Papers

Special Theme Issue

Urban Space Diversity: paradoxes and realities

Volume 37, Issue # 2, June 2012

Guest Editors:

Professor Ashraf M. Salama-Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.

Professor Alain Thierstein-Munich University of Technology, Munich, Germany.

E-mail: asalama@gmail.com  & thierstein@tum.de


With their socio-physical, socio-economic, socio-cultural, and sociopolitical presence cities have always been highly differentiated spaces expressive of heterogeneity, diversity of activities, entertainment, excitement, and pleasure. They have been (and still are) melting pots for the formulation of and experimentation with new philosophies and social practices. They produce, reproduce, represent, and convey much of what counts today as culture, knowledge, and politics. Urban spaces within cities are no exception; they are places for the pursuit of freedom, un-oppressed activities and desires, but also ones characterized by systematic power, oppression, domination, exclusion, and segregation. In dealing with these polar qualities diversity has become one of the new doctrines of city planners, urban designers, and architects. It continues to be at the center of recent urban debates. Little is known, however, on how urban space diversity can be achieved.

In recent rhetoric, diversity denotes in generic terms a mosaic of people who bring a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, styles, perspectives, values and beliefs as assets to the groups and organizations with which they interact. However, in urban discourses it has been addressed as having multiple meanings that include mixing building types, mixing physical forms, and mixing people of different social classes, racial and ethnic backgrounds. While some theorists attribute diversity to the socio-physical aspects of homogeneity within heterogeneity, social differentiation without exclusion, variety, and publicity (Young, 1990), others associate it with socio-political aspects of assimilation, integration, and segregation (Grillo, 2005). While some of these meanings represent a concern for a specific group of professionals including architects and urban designers, urban planners, cultural analysts and abstract theorists, they all agree that each meaning or aspect of diversity is linked to the others; they all call for strategies for urban development that stimulate socio-physical heterogeneity.

This special issue of Open House International attempts to offer answers to these questions: Can planned public urban spaces produce social diversity? What are the aspects of genuine diversity that can be planned for and what are the others that can be attained only spontaneously? With the goal of unveiling lessons learned on urban diversity from the decision making processes and the resulting public urban spaces, the purpose of this issue encompasses several objectives. It aims at providing a conceptualization of urban diversity and elaborating its underlying contents and mechanisms by exploring the variety of meanings adopted in the urban literature. As well, it attempts to establish models for discerning urban space diversity while mapping such models on selected case studies.


Key Dates

Interested scholars, academics, and practitioners are invited to submit expression of interest to the guest editors.

February 15, 2011: Call for Papers
March 30, 2011: Expression of Interest and Submission of Extended Abstracts.
April 15, 2011: Notification of Selected Papers for Possible Inclusion
June 30, 2011: Submission of Full Papers
September 12, 2010: Notification of the Refereeing Process
December 1, 2011: Submission of Final Revised Papers
June 1, 2012: Publication Date


Open House International is covered by: EBSCO Publishing , the ELSEVIER Bibliographic database Scopus and all products of THOMSON ISI index bases. The journal is also listed on the following Architectural index lists: RIBA, ARCLIB, AVERY and EKISTICS.

CFP: Open House International, Special Issue, Housing Affordability, Quality, and Life Style Theories

Open House International
Call for Papers

Special Theme Issue
Housing Affordability, Quality, and Life Style Theories
Volume 36, Issue # 3, September 2011
Guest Editors:
Professor Ashraf M. Salama, Qatar University and Dr Urmi Sengupta, Queen’s University Belfast
E-mail: asalama@gmail.com and u.sengupta@qub.ac.uk



The issue of housing affordability is widespread worldwide. Governments have responded to this issue through ways of cost reductions in order to make homes available at a price that a user is able to pay. However, this area of concern has been a permanent preoccupation of housing technocrats consumed in the quality and location of the housing unit, often overlooking other socio-cultural and psychological dimensions adhered to it. Housing quality is a composite good with a variety of attributes, including: structural condition, standard of services, amenities, location, usable space and occupancy standards. It can, at the same time be laden with physical, economic and cultural dimensions. The user assigns a pattern of preferences (spatial, social and visual) to the housing unit that corresponds to the degree of acceptability which are set within the context of housing quality and life-style preferences. Houses are, thus not only art forms or machines to live in but also goods with immense economic and social value. People purposively (or un-purposively) use the externally defined meanings of ‘housing’ to situate themselves with others who share their values and life-styles in asserting their social status and identity. Understanding how these issues of affordability may relate to people’s preferences and lifestyles mandates an understanding of housing quality and lifestyle theories.

Traditionally, the terms affordable housing, design and the life-style preferences of the low income population have been seen at best, in isolation and at worst, contradicting each other. In essence, measures to provide affordable housing ignores the fundamental principle that housing comes with the standard bundle of services and under-appreciates the lifestyle and cultural values of the targeted population. Recognition of the impact of life style theories on housing quality and affordability is therefore an emerging phenomenon that deserves a considerable research and a critical conceptualisation. Increasingly in developing world, this has manifested in the suburban development in major cities through developers selling the ‘western dream’ that embodies a new set of housing quality, housing design and life-style preferences and albeit the cost. This rides on the notion that housing today signifies a unique expression of the chosen life-style, one’s pride and sensibilities. The advent of globalisation accompanied by expanding middle class has accentuated this form of ‘western-romanticism’ which is increasingly defining the new ‘cultural preferences’ of people that need not necessarily align with local preferences on spaces, materials and built-form or people’s affordability level. Such processes are altering the historical and semiotic way we viewed the issue of housing affordability. Affordability as a concept has thus become more complex now than ever and challenges the way affordability was seen and defined solely through quantifiable numbers or the cost cutting exercise. Perhaps ‘Affordability’ has to be seen more holistically combining housing production process, the product and the cultural adherence and expressions of the users. The worsening housing affordability problems over the years in tandem with failure of government policies makes it imperative that alternative approaches and possibilities are explored. It is a complex, interdisciplinary query that needs an interdisciplinary approach to answer.

Key Dates
- February 15, 2010: Call for Papers
- April 30, 2010: Expression of Interest and Submission of Extended Abstracts.
- May 30, 2010: Notification of Selected Papers for Possible Inclusion
- September 15, 2010: Submission of Full Papers
- October 30, 2010: Notification of the Refereeing Process
- January 15, 2011: Submission of Final Revised Papers

Interested scholars, academics, and practitioners are invited to submit expression of interest to the guest editors.

Open House International is covered by EBSCO Publishing , the ELSEVIER Bibliographic Database Scopus and all products of THOMSON ISI index bases. The journal is also listed on the following Architectural index lists: RIBA, ARCLIB, AVERY and EKISTICS.

Visit Open House International: www.openhouse-int.com

Archnet-IJAR: A Record of Three Years

Archnet-IJAR--International Journal of Architectural Research announces the completion of its three year cycle . In those three years quality papers, diversely addressing a spectrum of issues spanning across architecture, urbanism, and the built environment. The three volumes include 117 refereed and trigger articles contributed by 149 scholars from 35 countries. Please find below links to

A News Piece on the three volumes of Archnet-IJAR
http://www.archnet.org/news/view.jsp?news_id=18061

The Latest Issue (Volume 3, Issue 3 - November 2009)
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10981

Archnet-IJAR Archives of previous issues classified by by author
http://archnet.org/library/documents/collection.jsp?collection_id=1543&order_by=author


Previous issues

2007
Volume 1: Issue 1:
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10061
Volume 1: Issue 2:
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10081
Volume 1: Issue 3
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10261

2008
Volume 2: Issue 1
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10321
Volume 2: Issue 2
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10441
Volume 2: Issue 3
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10481

2009
Volume 3: Issue 1
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10581
Volume 3: Issue 2
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10781
Volume 3: Issue 3
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10981


IJAR is indexed and is part of several databases, including Avery index to Architectural Periodicals, EBSCO-Current Abstracts-Art and Architecture, INTUTE, Directory of Open Access Journals, and several other university library databases. To inquire about contributing articles for future issues of IJAR, please contact the chief editor, Dr. Ashraf Salama, at ijar@mit.edu.

Design Education 2010: Archnet-IJAR Call for Papers

Design Education–2010
Explorations and Prospects for a Better Built Environment
3Ps: Paradigms - Positions - Practices

Archnet-IJAR: Volume 4, Issue 2, July 2010

Ashraf M. Salama and Michael J. Crosbie (editors)


The International Journal of Architectural Research (Archnet-IJAR) is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue on Design Education 2010: Explorations and Prospects for a Better Built Environment. Co-edited by Professors Ashraf M. Salama and Michael J. Crosbie, this special issue of Archnet-IJAR is intended for publication in July 2010.

click here to download the call for papers >>
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Shaping Architectural Discourse by Architecture Students at Queen's University Belfast, Ashraf M. Salama, 2009

A Recent Review Compiled and Edited by Ashraf M. Salama Published in

Archnet-IJAR, International Journal of Architectural Research,

Volume 3, Issue 2, (July 2009),

PP. 130-173
Ashraf M. Salama

SHAPING ARCHITECTURAL DISCOURSE BY ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS AT QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST:

Architecture Students at Queen’s University Belfast Review Selected Books on Person-Environment Interactions

Outline:

As part of a specialist subject (elective) on Socio-Behavioral and Cultural Factors in Architecture and Urban Design, which I teach to architecture students at Queen’s University Belfast, a book review assignment was delivered. The course aims at introducing students to cultural, social, and psychological issues in architectural and urban design, and their value to successful design practices. It provides an overview and analysis of the literature and major scholars, researchers, and practitioners. An integral component of the course is an intensive discussion of issues that pertain to ways in which information about socio-cultural factors and environment-behaviour knowledge can be applied to design projects. In more specific terms, the objectives of the course therefore encompass: 1) To increase students’ sensitivity to the built environment and to break any habits of taking the environment for granted; 2) To acquaint students with particular knowledge of a variety of environments including residential, work, learning, and urban environments. Since our societies are in a continuous process of transformation, we must engage in sound future design that would involve the systematic examination of the relationship between culture, behaviour, and the environment; 3) To enhance students’ understanding of the core concepts regarding human-environment relations and how these concepts vary by different cultures and sub-cultures, 4) To develop students critical thinking abilities about the role of the built form in fostering, enhancing, or inhibiting cultural behaviours and attitudes. In this article, I discuss the notion of reviews and book reviews, outline the assignment delivered to architecture students at Queen’s University Belfast, then present selected students’ reviews. While this article is simply a presentation of students’ work, the ultimate objective is to offer a package of ideas and concepts generated in the literature of person-environment interaction as viewed by the students. This is coupled with students’ articulations of and reflections on how the merits and demerits of those ideas and the way in which they relate to such ideas in their reviews. While this article does not reflect on students’ work and does not have a conclusion, it calls for a database that is exclusively dedicated to reviewed books on person-environment interactions, which could be published online on the web of one of the societies or associations concerned with people-environment interactions including EDRA-Environmental Design Research Association and IAPS-International Association of People-Environments Studies.

Click here to download the full review

http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10790

Identity Discourse ... A New Editorial on Architects for Peace, Ashraf M. Salama

A New Editorial Entitled:
Cultural Identity Manifested in Visual Voices and the Public Face of Architecture
Editorial: May 2009
Ashraf M. Salama

Architects for Peace
Australia..

http://archpeace2.blogspot.com/2009/05/cultural-identity-manifested-in-visual.html


Extracts...

While scholars in architecture as an academic and professional discipline may criticize the interest and tendency to place emphasis on discussing building images and facades, I adopt the principle that since architecture is created for the public then examining the public face of architecture is integral to the understanding of the juxtaposition of those images and what they convey and represent. This editorial interrogates a number of discourses on ways in which cultural identity is manifested by debating selected interventions developed within the Arab world. Still, the discussion on whether building images are created as visual voices that attempt to react to the tidal wave of cultural globalization is open-ended. So, there is no claim here that there is a resolution, but an articulation of identity debate as it is manifested in the public face of architecture.


Preamble
Arab architects are in a continuous process of criticizing their own versions of modern and post modern architecture and the prevailing contemporary practices. Within their criticism, discourses always suggest the recycling of traditional architecture and its elements as a way of establishing and imposing a distinguished character in the contemporary city. Typically, this takes the form of either refurbishing old palaces and public buildings, or establishing visual references—borrowed from the past—and utilized in contemporary/modern buildings. Adopted by governments and officials, there are a considerable number of examples of projects that advocated traditional imaging to impress the society by their origin while boasting the profile of capital and major cities, especially in Egypt and the Arabian Gulf Region. In generic terms, similar to the worldwide tendency, societies in the Arab world tend to re-evaluate the meaning and desirability of building images rapidly. The search for an architectural identity, the rise and fall of ISMS (movements and tendencies), and the continuous debate on symbolism and character issues in architecture are derived from this fact (1,2).

Sustainability / Trans-disciplinarity: A concern for people and environments between confusing terminology and outdated approaches, Ashraf M. Salama

Sustainability / Trans-disciplinarity: A concern for people and environments between confusing terminology and outdated approaches, Ashraf M. Salama

A New Article on INTBAU Website: International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture, and Urbanism
http://www.intbau.org/essay20.htm




Extracts
There is a great deal of discussion in design, architecture, and construction circles on creating sustainable environments, and there are also widely varying opinions as to exactly how sustainability can be introduced and approached. Current debates indicate that the term encompasses more than the physical and economic aspects. It includes social, cultural, and behavioral dimensions. Observing contemporary architectural practices, however, reveals that there are two major missing dimensions. On the one hand, there is an emphasis on the physical aspects of sustainability, while socio-cultural and socio-behavioral dimensions are oversimplified. On the other hand, there is a heavy reliance on top-down policies and strategies with the aim of developing guidelines to be implemented for the betterment of environments. Strikingly, this takes place at the expense of other bottom-up strategies that aim at sensitizing users toward understanding the key issues underlying sustainability. These two missing dimensions — socio-behavioural dimensions, and bottom-up strategies — offer a rationale for the professional community everywhere in the world to use sustainability as a term in their daily discourse. Nevertheless, even while talking about it, they do not yet use sustainability or utilize it in their daily practices. This article presents a critical voice on the current developments and efforts in dealing with sustainability of built environments, by adopting an alternative comprehensive approach that places high value on "trans-disciplinarity". This is achieved by adapting previous efforts developed in the field, and by addressing users as key players in the process of creating sustainable environments.

This essay is an extended version of an earlier article published in the Bulletin of IAPS — The International Association of People-Environment Studies, Spring 2002

Archnet-IJAR, Volume 3, Issue 1-March 2009, Launches

Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research

- ISSN - International (Online) 1994-6961
- ISSN - United States (Online) 1938-7806
- OCLC & World Cat (Online Computer Library Center) # 145980807
- Library of Congress Catalogue # 2007212183

- Covered by EBSCO Products, EBSCO-Art and Architecture Database.
- Covered by Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals.

ArchNet-IJAR is now a part of EBSCO Products – EBSCO Art and Architecture Database, covered by Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, Directory of Open Access Journals, and databases of several publishing houses and university libraries.

Archnet-IJAR Archnet-IJAR is also part of the Directory of Open Access Journals, Lund University, Sweden.
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Also check here:
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http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10581
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ArchNet-IJAR’s first 2009 issue is its largest to date, with 280 pages and twenty-two articles and entries addressing issues in fourteen countries across four continents. Co-edited by Professors Aleya Abdel-Hadi and Ashraf Salama, this issue features selected papers from the 19th International Conference of the International Association of People Environments Studies (IAPS).

Also included are additional papers on last issue’s special topic, Hammams in the Mediterranean, as well as peer-reviewed articles, a book review, and a call for papers.

The March 2009 issue is available for download here. The ArchNet Digital Library also contains an ArchNet-IJAR section, holding all past and present ArchNet-IJAR articles.

To inquire about contributing articles for future issues of IJAR, please contact the chief editor, Dr. Ashraf Salama, at ijar@mit.edu.


Previous Volumes and Issues

Volume 1 Issue 1- March 2007
http://www.archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10061
Volume 1 Issue 2 – July 2007
http://www.archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10081
Volume 1 Issue 3 – November 2007
http://www.archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10268
Volume 2 Issue 1 – March 2008
http://www.archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10321
Volume 2 Issue 2 – July 2008
http://www.archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10441
Volume 2 Issue 3 – November 2008
http://www.archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10261

Archnet-IJAR Board
...Chief Editor: Ashraf M. 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; Amira Elnokaly; Anne Beamish; Budi Sukada; Dalila Al-Kerdani; Donatella Mazzoleni; Eman El-Nachar; Fuad Mallick; Hisham Elkadi; Hulya Turgut; Ihab Elzeyadi; M. Alaa Mandour; Malika Bose; Magda Sibley; Mashary Al-Naim; Peter Kellett; Rabee Reffat; Yasser El-Shehstawy; Yasser Mahgoub. 

Open House International, Special Issue: Shaping the Future of Learning Environments, Vol 34, Issue 1, March 2009, Guest Editor: Ashraf M. Salama

Open House International

Vol 34.No1. March 2009

Special Issue on Learning Environments
SHAPING THE FUTURE OF LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS:
Emerging Paradigms and Best Practices

Guest Editor:
Dr. Ashraf M. Salama,

Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom

Extracts from the Editorial by Ashraf M. Salama

Whether in school buildings or university campuses the educational process involves many activities that include knowledge acquisition and assimilation, testing students’ motivation and academic performance, and faculty and teachers’ productivity. The way in which we approach the planning, design, and our overall perception of learning environments makes powerful statements about how we view education; how educational buildings are designed tells us much about how teaching and learning activities occur. Concomitantly, how these activities are accommodated in a responsive educational environment is a critical issue that deserves special attention. While it was said a number of decades ago that a good teacher can teach anywhere, a growing body of literature derived from research suggests a direct correlation between the physical aspects of the learning environment, teaching processes, and learning outcomes. Therefore, this issue of OHI explores qualities and characteristics of learning environments at different scales and in different contexts, from classroom typologies to campus outdoor spaces. It places emphasis on emerging paradigms in learning environments that involve a number of underlying issues including the academic house clustering, the school as heart of the community, the rising interest in new classroom spaces and forms, the users centered processes, and utilizing the learning environment as an open textbook. Selected papers for inclusion in this issue place emphasis on how these concepts are articulated in specific cases, others cover best process practices of planning and designing learning environments, or explore--through assessment studies--the impact of the physical aspects of the learning environment on academic achievement, students' behavior and faculty and teachers' productivity.

CONTENTS:
Editorial: Ashraf M. Salama A Bright Future for Creating Environments Conducive to Learning; Henry Sanoff Research Based Design of an Elementary School; Clare Newton, Sue Wilks, and Dominique Hes Educational Buildings as 3D Text Books: Linking Ecological Sustainability, Pedagogy and Space; Joy Potthoff Design for Communication: Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Classroom Spaces; Ashraf M. Salama The Users in Mind: Utilizing Henry Sanoff’s Methods in Investigating Learning Environments; Iris Aravot Topographies and Shrines: Creating Responsive Learning Environments; Pamela Harwood Charter School Patterns of Innovation: A New Architecture for a New Education; Yasser Mahgoub Social and Cultural Requirements for Future Sustainable Learning Environments: The Case of New Kuwait University Campus; Susan Whitmer Does Place Really Matter to Students with Learning Disabilities? A Study of Three University Campuses; Ashraf M. Salama Design Intentions and Users Responses: Assessing Outdoor Spaces of Qatar University Campus; Pedro Serrano Rodríguez and Luis Felipe González Böhme Exploring Outdoor Education and Research in Architecture; Burcu Şenyapılı* and Ahmet Fatih Karakaya The Future Setting of the Design Studio; Michael Jenson Towards a “Globalized” Studio Environment: Configuring Reflexive Spatial Agendas .

Archnet-IJAR, Volume 2, Issue 2, July 2008: Multiple Voices in Architecture and Urbanism

Archnet-IJAR, Volume 2, Issue 2, July 2008
Multiple Voices in Architecture and Urbanism
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10441

Excerpts from the Editorial entitled
Multiple Voices in Architecture and Urbanism
By Ashraf M. Salama
“…In this fifth issue (Volume 2-Issue 2) of Archnet-IJAR continues to raise issues of concern to the worldwide community of architects, designers, and urbanists. A considerable number of voices are accommodated. They offer diverse issues on a wide spectrum of issues that range from the interior spatial environment level to building and city levels. In fact, Archnet-IJAR maintains its presence as a platform for debating issues of interest to academics, professionals, and graduate students. And so, important pressing topical areas are presented in the refereed papers included in this issue. These include architectural education and design pedagogy, human-environment interactions, universal design, professional practice, sustainable cities, and identity….”

“…While both the refereed papers and the trigger and review articles presented in this issue address many issues, it is important to note that they also address many contexts from the United States to New Zealand and from the Middle East and the Arabian Peninsula to Malaysia. This reflects the true essence of Archnet-IJAR of being an international forum for discoursing the design and the actual use of built environments and the context within which they are created. …”


Content and Contributions

Editorial: Multiple Voices in Architecture and Urbanism-PP.07/10.
Ashraf M. Salama
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10443

Great Programs in Architecture: Rankings, Performance Assessments, and Diverse Paths to Prominence -PP.11/22.
Ann Forsyth
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10444

Dynamic Adaptive Web-based Model for Architectural Design Education (DAAD) PP.23/40.
Hesham T. Eissa and Ji-Hyun Lee
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10445

Beyond Concepts-A Studio Pedagogy for Preparing Tomorrow's Designers-PP.41/56.
Tasoulla Hadjiyanni
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10446

When Good Design Intentions Do Not Meet Users Expectations: Exploring Qatar University Campus Outdoor Spaces-PP.57/77.
Ashraf M. Salama
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10447

Universal Design: From Policy to Assessment Research and Practice -PP. 78/93.
Wolfgang F. E. Preiser
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10448

The Influence of Privacy Regulation on Urban Malay Families Living in Terrace Housing-PP.94/102.
Ahmad Hariza Hashim and Zaiton Abdul Rahim
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10449

Natural Lighting of Deep Architectural Space: The Perception of New Zealand Architects-PP.103/124.
Richard Barrett
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10450

Identity in Transitional Context: Open-Ended Local Architecture in Saudi Arabia-PP. 125/146.
Mashary A. Al-Naim
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10451

Landscaping an Office Park in Amman, Jordan: Incorporating Sustainable Site Design Principles-PP.147/161.
Aydin Özdemir, Metin Başal, Ahmet Benliay
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10452

Towards a Sustainable Neighborhood: The Role of Open Spaces-PP.162/177.
Khalid Al-Hagla
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10453

Emerging Cities on the Arabian Peninsula: Urban Space in the Knowledge Economy Context-PP.178/195.
Alain Thierstein and Elisabeth Schein
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10454

Climate, Cities, and Sustainability in the Arabian Region: Compactness as a New Paradigm in Urban Design and Planning-PP. 196/208.
Mustapha Ben-Hamouche
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10455

The Future of African Cities-PP. 209/219.
Muhammad al Najib Brimah
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10456

Skyscraper Future Visions-PP. 220/230.
Mohamad Kashef
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10457

"Algorithmic Sustainable Design: The Future of Architectural Theory , A Series of 12 Lectures by Nikos A. Salingaros-PP. 231/233.
Nicola Giacomo A.G. Linza, William Gay & Anna Grasso-Gay.
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10458

A Call for Translation: After Amnesia: Learning from the Islamic Mediterranean Urban Fabric
by Attilio Pettruccioli-PP. 234/235.
Ashraf M. Salama
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10459

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MONU Magazine - Exotic Urbanism..Call for Submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR MONU

magazine on urbanism #9 -

EXOTIC URBANISM

Ever since our cities became areas of continuous interaction and ever-expanding exchange the term “exotic” - understood as counterpart to the “local”, the “native” or even the “authentic” - has become a rather vague term. Who – in actual fact - is still able to distinguish between the one and the other, between the exotic and the local? Who would be interested anyway? Yet, once again, there seems to be an increasing fascination with, and interest in, importing and seeing certain urban elements from other parts of the world in our own cities. There are, apparently, more Japanese people visiting the fake Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas than the original in Paris. What makes this displacement so interesting today?

The fascination with the “exotic” and its appearance in our cities has a long history, although at first merely going in one direction: from the “West” to the “East”. Interest in the exotic by the Western World was first stimulated by trade with the Eastern World back in the 16th century. But right from the start there has always been this intriguing contradiction in the term “exotic” as being on the one hand associated with fantasies of opulence and barbaric splendour, yet on the other hand considered as integer, uncorrupted and tasteful. The charm of the unfamiliar with its thrill of menace hasn’t lost its attraction even today and has been turned into a global phenomenon that can no longer be discussed within the narrow-minded Orient – Occident dialectic. These days, all kinds of foreign urban elements evoke the atmosphere of far-off lands all over the world. A finish sauna can be as exotic in Sao Paulo as Islamic ornamental motifs on a building in New York City.

MONU#9 investigates what the term exotic actually means for our cities and how exotic urban elements appear, what they look like, and how they may influence our cities. In any case, exotic urban features appear more and more as an inexhaustible source for progressive urban design ideas. When the exotic influenced the appearance of the “Art Nouveau” at the end of the 19th century, it might today have the power to create an “Urban Nouveau”.

We invite daring concepts, mind-stretching speculations and ground-breaking new strategies about the topic “Exotic Urbanism” for our next issue of MONU. Submissions may be essays, photography, art projects or design concepts that trigger the term “exotic” in the urban context. MONU #9 will be published in the summer of 2008. Submissions or questions should be sent to info@monu-magazine.com by the end of June 2008. www.monu-magazine.com

After One Year.. Archnet-IJAR: Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2008

Archnet-IJAR:
International Journal of Architectural Research After One year

Archnet-IJAR
Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2008

ArchNet-IJAR, the new online journal of architecture and urbanism, begins its second year on ArchNet with the publication of its first 2008 issue. The past year's efforts have been very successful; IJAR now boasts both a high readership and contributions from distinguished scholars and educators in the field.

In this first issue of 2008, several giants in architecture and human-environment interaction, joined by younger scholars, offer their thoughts and research. This multiplicity of views opens the way to a lively, complex debate on the built environment.

All issues of IJAR may be downloaded here from the Digital Library on ArchNet, or accessed via the IJAR Group Workspace.






Content of Archnet-IJAR Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2008


Editorial: Excellence in Architectural and Urban Research-PP.07/15.
Ashraf M. Salama

Some Further Thoughts on Culture and Environment-PP. 16/39.
Amos Rapoport

Architecture between the Culture-Nature Dualism: A Case Study of Geoffrey Bawa’s Kandalama Hotel-PP. 40/56.
Ceridwen Owen

Multiple Views of Participatory Design-PP.57/69.
Henry Sanoff

Rethinking Residential Mobility: An Interdisciplinary Interpretation- PP.70/83.
Roderick J. Lawrence

Assessing Building Performance: Its Evolution from Post-Occupancy Evaluation-PP. 84/99
Wolfgang F. E. Preiser and Jack L. Nasar

A Theory for Integrating Knowledge in Architectural Design Education PP. 100/128.
Ashraf M. Salama

Intelligence-Based Design:A Sustainable Foundation for Worldwide Architectural Education-PP.129/188.
Nikos A. Salingaros and Kenneth G. Masden II

An An Architecture for Autism: Concepts of Design Intervention for the Autistic User-PP.189/211.
Magda Mostafa

Quantitative (GIS) and Qualitative (BPE) Assessments of Library Performance-PP. 212/231.
Wolfgang F.E. Preiser and Xinhao Wang

The Impact of War on the Meaning of Architecture in Kuwait-PP. 232/246.
Yasser Mahgoub

Proportions and Human Scale in Damascene Courtyard Houses-PP. 247/263.
M. Salim Ferwati and M. Alaa Mandour

Book Reviews: Selected Scandinavian Contributions to Contemporary Architectural Discourse-PP. 264/269.
Ashraf M. Salama

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Interested scholars, researchers, practitioners, and graduate students of architecture may contact the chief editor of IJAR, Ashraf Salama, at ijar@mit.edu.

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