...Tom Frantzen; Caroline Cornelia Kruit Purpose This paper shares the experience of developing and designing two adjacent projects, Patch22 and Top-Up, in Amsterdam using Open Building principles. It discusses the architectural, technical and legal challenges and opportunities encountered, as well...

...Mikail Açıkel; Hilal Tuğba Örmecioğlu; İkbal Erbaş Purpose This study aims to conduct a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of research literature on the use of virtual reality (VR) technology in architectural education and practice. It seeks to provide insights into the evolution, applications...

...Abdullah Eren Demirel; Semahat Merve Top; Zeynep Yeşim İlerisoy; Esra Betül Kınacı Purpose This study examines the influence of disciplinary differences and applied practices between architecture and engineering on students’ cognitive and affective responses to online education systems...

...Büşra Topdağı Yazıcı; Nuran Irapoğlu; Hande Nur Güleçoğlu Purpose This study aims to explore the impact of architecture on digital communication mediums, focusing on how social media shapes the public perception and discussion of architectural spaces. It specifically examines the case...

... learning environment that could promote the students’ design competencies. Design/methodology/approach The experiment was conducted at Basic Design studio, investigating three concepts of basic design principles: harmony, repetition and rhythm. A total of 80 first-year architectural students were...

... times, no quantitative approach has ever been used to test this argument. In response, this paper uses a quantitative method, fractal analysis, to measure the relationship between the architecture of Fallingwater and of its natural surroundings. Design/methodology/approach Using fractal...

.... The leitmotif narrative includes design studio pedagogy, sustainable environments for tourism, responsive learning environments, affordable housing environments, diversity in urban environments and urbanism in globalised environments. The contextual/conceptual narrative encompasses architecture and urbanism...

...Marwa M. El-Ashmouni; Ashraf M. Salama Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an analytical account on the contemporary architecture of Cairo with emphasis on the past three decades, from the early 1990s to the present. The paper critically analyses narratives of the plurality of “isms...

... of blocks, urban parks and buildings and so on was achieved. Game Theory Transformation And Upgrading Urban Planning Block Architecture * Corresponding author: Chongyan Yi © 2018 Open House International 2018 Licensed re-use rights only. open house international Vol.43 no.1, March...

.... This study is of certain guiding significance for the actual urban landscape planning design. * Corresponding author: Tangwei Teng © 2018 Open House International 2018 Licensed re-use rights only. Sustainable Development Urban Landscape Architecture Regionality tangwei teng, congyi Qu...

... residential design is increasingly dominated by distinctive patterns of Western suburban ideal comprising detached or semi-detached homes and high rise tower blocks. This architectural iconoclasm can be construed as a rather crude response to the indigenous culture and built form. The paper attempts...

... that disrupt more popular housing practices. Based upon an architectural survey of seventeen houses and the detailed stories of their construction, this paper argues that while the Senegalese villa is influenced by global networks and symbols of success, it is also deeply rooted in popular housing forms...

...Michael Karassowitsch An unspoken issue of increasing priority in architectural education is the under developed differentiation between architecture and technology. Almost all of the qualifications whereby an architect is prepared for and is permitted to practice professionally are technological...

...Robin Schaeverbeke; Hélène Aarts; Ann Heylighen Teaching drawing in architectural education raises questions regarding the representation of spatial experiences: to what extent can sensory experiences of space be intensified through observing and drawing and, perhaps equally important, what those...

... lives. What is therefore new in Architecture? The environmental ethics have given us a universal and supra-generational vision of the management of our Nature and, as a consequence, a new way to construct our “second” nature. What is essential for this new architecture that the new ethics demand...

...Jieheerah Yun Very recently, the South Korean architectural field has seen a rising trend to reinterpret the traditional hanok, meaning Korean-style house. While this presents an interesting diversion from the housing market dominated by high-rise apartments, there is a lack of consensus...

...Matevz Juvancic; Marjan Hocevar; Tadeja Zupancic The persistence of difficulties related to communication of the stakeholders in the architectural and urban design process is mainly due to the diversity of interests, different perspectives, representation problems and the abilities of visual...

... conditions. © 2013 Open House International 2013 Licensed re-use rights only. Urbanism Architecture Urban Evolution Gulf Kuwait TRACING THE EVOLUTION OF URBANISM IN KUWAIT. open house international Vol.38 No.4, december 2013. Tracing the Evolution Of Urbanism In Kuwait. Yasser Mahgoub...

...James Davidson Given the broad scale and fundamental transformations occurring to both the natural environment and human condition in the present era, what does the future hold for vernacular architecture studies? In a world where Capital A (sometimes referred to as ‘polite’) architectural icons...

...Ann Heylighen; Caroline Van Doren; Peter-Willem Vermeersch The relationship between the built environment and the human body is rarely considered explicitly in contemporary architecture. In case architects do take the body into account, they tend to derive mathematical proportions or functional...