50 research outputs found
The Architecture of India
Book review of "India: Modern Architecture in History" and author interview with Peter Scriver and Amit Srivastav
The Dichloroacetate Dilemma: Environmental Hazard versus Therapeutic Goldmine—Both or Neither?
Religion as Conceptual Scaffolding for Architecture
Religion and Architecture have a long and intimately intertwined relationship in virtually all cultural histories. Through a wide-ranging discussion centring on India and its global diaspora, this chapter considers some of the many ways in which religion continues to be invested in architecture in the world today, and vice versa, broadening and deepening understanding of how religion is literally 'placed' in contemporary life. Architecture, we conclude, sustains at least a part of the project that religion pursued more dominantly and directly, with the aid of architecture, in other times; it constructs and articulates space, both physical and social, as a medium in which individuals and collectives may engage and cohere, and through which the self and its relationship to greater wholes or entities may be defined and realised
Does not the glorious east seem to be transported to our shores? Perth\u27s Golden Mosque (1905)
Translation of social citizenship to architecture & built environment: A methodological review
Social Citizenship is a concept that is used to represent acceptance and identity
by the local community. This is a manifestation expressed in the form of space,
monument or buildings. Buildings such as mosques and other religious buildings
are a form of manifestation to such expression left for other generations to see
and study. This manifestation of citizenship through religious buildings can be an
expression of struggle, establishment, sense of belonging and local acceptance
towards achieving social citizenship. The understanding of this concept implicitly
shows that these elements are the driving forces behind the architecture that is
erected in order to find approval from the local population. This paper reviews
the employed research designs, methods and procedures in the process of
understanding the translation of social citizenship to architecture expressed by
mosques. The methods adopted were aimed toward obtaining archival/historical
evidence that can elicit proof of the concept. The methods also involved the
process of inquiry that would be the basis for discussion and to draw a conclusion
to the relationship between social citizenship and architecture. This paper also
highlights the strengths and limitations of the methodological techniques besides
spelling out the variables needed to prove the relationshi