This book brings together a diverse group of theoreticians to explore architectural theory as a discipline, assessing its condition and relevance to contemporary practice. Offering critical assessment in the face of major ...
The history of modern architecture has been well covered in the classical surveys of Sigfried Giedion, Kenneth Frampton, William Curtis, Alan Colquhoun, and others who traced the developments of this major movement that ...
Haddad, Elie G.; Abdel Fattah, Mohsen(European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2010)
Bahariya Formation in Western Desert Egypt is one of the major complex oil bearing reservoirs in<br>Egypt. Many discoveries have revealed the high oil potentialities of this formation.<br>Detailed sedimentological ...
Haddad, Elie G.; Abuelfotoh, Ahmed M.(European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2010-03)
The Formation Micro Imager tool provides high resolution electrical images, which is capable of<br>detecting any features within the studied formation. In majority of cases, FMI can replace an expensive<br>coring cost ...
Another issue of interest that Jameson raises is this continuing dialectic between “two moments” of Modernism, which alternate historically in all elds from architecture to music and painting, as in the early movement from ...
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are often associated with grey, anonymous, and poorly constructed post-war buildings. Despite this reputation, the regional architectural developments that produced these buildings ...
Academy Editions later published a series of reviews, in addition to a concise introduction to Deconstruction, featuring two essays by Christopher Norris and Andrew Benjamin, the former an expert on Jacques Derrida, the ...
This is a compelling compilation of essays by international architectural theorists on the relationship of violence to space. With the events of September 11th, the London bombings, the Madrid train explosions, and the ...
The reconstruction of Beirut, which has been largely focused on the center of the city, is a matter on which a lot of ink has been spilled. Politicians, urban planners, architects and citizens, have been engaged in this ...
This study deals with storage jars/amphorae from the Late Roman and Byzantine periods found in the salvage excavations at the site of Horbat Castra, located at the foot of the Carmel Ridge across from Kfar Samir. The ...
The historie center of Beirut was subjected after the war to
a complete renovation under the aegis of a real-estate company, named Solidere. This model had sorne positive aspects, such as the preservation of certain parts ...
This article is a textual analysis initiating the examination of twelve album covers in relation to Lebanon. The covers are examined through the trans-contextualization of diverse and eclectic fusions. Such covers create ...
The Burj al-Murr appears in the Beirut cityscape as a towering concrete tube dotted with rectangular windows. The construction of the tower began in 1974. The eruption of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975 radically altered ...
Regardless of their ubiquity, the design of digital visual identifiers for sound and music has been disregarded in published discourse that is instead dominated by covers as printed packages primarily dedicated to ...
This presentation focuses on the development of Arabic calligraphic monograms that are translated into multiple interpretations of pattern designs. The process opens up many design solutions that are each unique in their ...
Abdel Baki, Randa(Industrial Design Centre, 2013-03)
This presentation focuses on the process of designing and coupling experimental display typeface in Latin and Arabic. As the two scripts are in opposite directions, and the glyphs are different in many aspects, it is vital ...
Under the influence of globalization and multinational communication, the English language has become the steering script utilized in visual design. It has displaced other local languages and scripts and imposed a monolingual ...
This paper identifies and analyzes the challenges of bilingual design layout systems in Beirut. With the rapid spread of globalization, English and Arabic often enter the public realm together. As the design industry also ...
This article discusses Saloua Raouda Choucair’s commitment to design through her combined interest in science and Sufism. Her artistic and design accomplishments portray her as a resolute and determined woman who actively ...
This article examines the teaching of graphic design history in Lebanon and other Arab countries, with a focus on the incorporation of a local perspective in the curriculum. The study brings attention to overlooked elements ...