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

IAPS Networks

IAPS NETWORKS

Research and Interest Groups of the International Association -- People-Environment Studies.

The Networks are interest and research groups formed by IAPS members. They carry out debates, discussion groups, publications, often posses their own website and organise symposia and conferences. For example, within IAPS Conference in Rome (IAPS-2008): The Culture and Space in the Built Environment-CSBE and the Education Networks organized a one day symposium Cities, Cultural Diversity, and Design Pedagogy: Enhancing "People Environments" Paradigm in Education, coordinated by Hulya Turgut Yildiz, Ashraf M. Salama, and Peter Kellett, Click here for more information  http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=10601
 
The Networks are coordinated by Aleya Abdel-Hadi, Emeritus Professor and IAPS Board Member.
This is a poster prepared and presented at IAPS 2010-Leipzig.

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http://www.iaps-association.org/activities-remit/networks/