Determining an Appropriate Architectural Style for Designing Cultural Buildings in Ghana.

There is no established general pattern, philosophy or style for designing national cultural buildings in Ghana. Existing cultural buildings are often an expression of the designers own ‘DNA’ or his/ her most preferred architectural style and neglecting aspects of other archetypes which collectively constitute the Architecture and heritage of the Ghanaian people. This paper sought to determine an ideal Architectural style for the design of National cultural buildings in Ghana. The mixed research approach of both qualitative and quantitative methods was adopted. The qualitative method utilized historical reviews to establish the various architectural styles or types in Ghana to include Vernacular, Islamic, Western and Eclectic Architectures. Purposive and random sampling techniques were employed to obtain data for the quantitative study. Frequency and percentages was adopted for the description of this study. The study showed a strong approval rating for eclectic architecture as the ideal architectural philosophy for the design of cultural buildings in Ghana. The study also revealed that the high approval rating for eclectic architecture was because it represented more the diversity in Ghanaian Architecture

The history and invocation of the Arche in Austrian Radical architecture thinking

The architecture of the European Radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s is principally associated with the forward-looking principles of the architectural avant-garde. Scholarship on the movements emphasizes its futuristic and accompanying science fiction elements. While the importance of a visionary focus on the birth and development of the Radical movements is widely acknowledged, the same cannot be said for the connections of the visionary production to the architectural past. This article focuses on the Austrian Radicals and stresses their use of archetypal forms as a means to signify the difference between them and the preceding generation of Austrian modernists. In this sense the passing of editorial control of Bau from the Modernists to the Radicals is a crucial moment in the context of this article