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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...