Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Trends and Discourses of Contextual Architecture
This chapter discusses how local and foreign contemporary architects practicing in the Middle East have attempted to draw up conceptual and practical constructs regarding how to contextualize the architecture of globalism through creative design solutions. The progressive architectural ideas of the first generation of local architects in the Middle East, who practised between the 1930s and the 1950s, viewed technology as an end in itself, and not as a means with architecture serving as its vehicle. These architects attempted to convert raw concrete, steel and glass into utilitarian designed forms that spread all over the place. The presentation of tools that allow a contextual understanding and projection of space is essential at this particular moment in the history of the Middle East, where forces blindly leaning towards the 'ethos' of abstract internationalism have inflicted serious damage on the built environment, despite its fast solutions to several issues such as the housing shortage. The main issue of modernism is that it enforces so‐called rational rules on regional and vernacular architecture in order to attune it to modern reason, labeling it as primitive or disorderly without consulting its users in order to decipher its complexity.
Trends and Discourses of Contextual Architecture
This chapter discusses how local and foreign contemporary architects practicing in the Middle East have attempted to draw up conceptual and practical constructs regarding how to contextualize the architecture of globalism through creative design solutions. The progressive architectural ideas of the first generation of local architects in the Middle East, who practised between the 1930s and the 1950s, viewed technology as an end in itself, and not as a means with architecture serving as its vehicle. These architects attempted to convert raw concrete, steel and glass into utilitarian designed forms that spread all over the place. The presentation of tools that allow a contextual understanding and projection of space is essential at this particular moment in the history of the Middle East, where forces blindly leaning towards the 'ethos' of abstract internationalism have inflicted serious damage on the built environment, despite its fast solutions to several issues such as the housing shortage. The main issue of modernism is that it enforces so‐called rational rules on regional and vernacular architecture in order to attune it to modern reason, labeling it as primitive or disorderly without consulting its users in order to decipher its complexity.
Trends and Discourses of Contextual Architecture
Radoine, Hassan (Autor:in)
Architecture in Context ; 199-231
18.04.2017
33 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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