What is a Townhouse? Architecture, Features, and Character is the second article on architecture projects from practice. A townhouse is a type of residential building. It shares walls with other similar units in a complex or row. Townhomes typically have multiple floors, often including a garage on the ground level, and share some features like […]
Classical Villa Architectural Design Project
Classical Villa Architectural Design Project is the first article on architecture projects from practice. The villa is located in an Arabian desert country that has the characteristics of desert villa architectural design. The plot is located in a new development completed in the year 2010 called the Arabian Ranches in the UAE of the Middle […]
The nature of urban design- A book review
Author Alexandros Washburn Publisher Island Press language English Book Type Paperback ISBN-13 978-1610916998 Pages 264 3 / 5 The nature of urban design author Alexandros Washburn is from an art and biology major; he studied master of architecture from Harvard University. He worked in several areas of specialty in the United Nations as public work […]
The urban design process – Book review
Author Hamid Shirvani Publisher Van Nostrand language English Book Type Paperback ISBN-10 0442280335 Pages 214 5 / 5 The urban design process author background, Hamid Shirvani is recently a professor and chancellor in Pennsylvania State University. He spent his entire career in the education field and teaching in various locations in USA till he reached […]
Theory Building: A Practical Guide to the Construction …
Author Robert Dubin Publisher Generic Printing language English Book Type Paperback ISBN-13 978-0029076309 Pages 236 5 / 5 Robert starts his book ( theory building) illustrating the source of a hypothesis to test a theory, theory correlation to hypothesis testing, the operation of the theory units, laws they interact with, boundaries of a theory, and […]
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Author Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D Publisher Harper Business language English Book Type Paperback ISBN-10 9780061241895 Pages 336 3 / 5 Psychology of persuasion is written in high level English but easy to understand, he presents six principals of persuasion in high level of detail within every chapter relevant to one principal concentrating on automatic human […]
Urbanism: Intensification policy & urban development barriers
Urbanism: Intensification Policy & Urban Development Barriers is the seventh article of a series1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17 . It assesses the dialectic of architecture and urban design in the urbanism field. I will go through this relationship from the top scale of urbanism in the city to the smallest scale of urbanism components of urban space. In the […]
The study of urban form in Germany
The urban form location debate The writer presents a reader detailed study and analysis of the research debate of urban form in Germany. He divides the paper into three parts. First, the urban form- location studies. Second, the urban form–function studies. Third, the urban form- structure studies. The first part covers the period before the […]
Spatial Planning and policy in Israel: land use perspective
Spatial planning and policy in Israel: land use perspective is a case study of Netanya and Umm Al-Fahm. This study is part of a series of studies conducted by the OECD. In the first part, the study illustrates the process of addressing the challenges resulting from inefficient regulatory procedures. The planning system in Israel is […]
Paradigm shift in architecture: criteria-character-practice
Paradigm shift in architecture: criteria-character-practice. image shows that functional relationships has not changed regardless of building type, University of Bangkok in Thailand.