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Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability
Cultural sustainability is a very important aspect of the overall sustainability framework and is regarded as the fourth pillar alongside the other three: environmental, economic, and social sustainability. However, the concept is neither fully explored, nor widely accepted or recognized. This book elicits the interplay of nature-culture-architecture and theorizes the concept of cultural sustainability and culturally sustainable architecture. It identifies four key themes in Chinese philosophy: Harmony with Heaven, Harmony with Earth, Harmony with Humans, and Harmony with Self, along with Greek philosopher Aristotle’s physics: form, space, matter, and time, it sets them as criteria to eval...
Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, Vol.1 No.2, 2017
Oeuvre vs. Abstract Space: Appropriation of Gezi Park in Istanbul Senem Zeybekoglu Sadri, Dr. 1-10 DOI https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2017.3643 Identity in Changing Context: Factors of losing Identity in new developed part of the city of Famagusta, North Cyprus Hourakhsh Ahmad Nia, Dr., Yousif Hussien Suleiman, MA. 11-20 DOI https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2017.3644 The inspiration of Bauhaus principles on the modern housing in Cyprus Mustafa Aziz Amen, Ph.D. Candidate 21-32 DOI https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2017.3645 An agenda for the Management of contemporary Sustainable houses Ifeanyi Obi, Dr. 33-37 DOI https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2017.3646 Courtyard Housing in China: Chinese Quest fo...
Courtyard Housing for Health and Happiness
Health and happiness are fundamental to human quality of life. The United Nations World Happiness Report 2012 reflects a new worldwide call for governments to include happiness as a criterion to their policies. The Healthy Cities or Happy Cities movement has been endorsed by the WHO since 1986, and a Healthy House or Happy Home is a critical constituent of a healthy city or a happy city. Nevertheless, the concept has not been fully explored. Existing literature on the healthy house has often focused on the technical, economic, environmental, or biochemical aspects, while current scholarship on the happy home commonly centers on interior decoration. Few studies have addressed the importance o...
Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, Vol.2 No.1. 2018
The Influence of Le Corbusier On the emergence of the Aesthetic Values in the Modern Architecture of Cyprus, Farhan Abdullah Ali ………………….………………..… 1-12 https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2017.3651 The Presence of Modernist Architecture in Government’s educational Buildings at Lefkoşa, Maryam Iranfar…………………………………………….………………………………… 22-32 https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2018.3653 Classical Chinese Gardens: Landscapes for Self-Cultivation, Donia Zhang ….…33-44 https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2018.3654 Evaluating energy consumption in terms of climatic factors: A case study of Karakol residential apartments, ...
Laws of the Land
A groundbreaking history of fengshui’s roles in public life and law during China’s last imperial dynasty Today the term fengshui, which literally means “wind and water,” is recognized around the world. Yet few know exactly what it means, let alone its fascinating history. In Laws of the Land, Tristan Brown tells the story of the important roles—especially legal ones—played by fengshui in Chinese society during China’s last imperial dynasty, the Manchu Qing (1644–1912). Employing archives from Mainland China and Taiwan that have only recently become available, this is the first book to document fengshui’s invocations in Chinese law during the Qing dynasty. Facing a growing p...
New Approaches in Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism
This book is an intellectual discourse and a concise compendium of current research in architecture and urbanism. Primarily, it is a book of readings of 16 chapters. The book brings together theories, manifestos and methodologies on contemporary architecture and urbanism to raise the understanding for the future architecture and urban planning. Overall, the book aimed to establish a bridge between theory and practice in built environment. Thus, it reports on the latest research findings and innovative approaches, methodologies for creating, assessing and understanding of contemporary built environment.
A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture
A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture: Past, Present, Future examines the impact of Chinese philosophy on China’s historic structures, as well as on modern Chinese urban aesthetics and architectural forms. For architecture in China moving forward, author David Wang posits a theory, the New Virtualism, which links current trends in computational design with long-standing Chinese philosophical themes. The book also assesses twentieth-century Chinese architecture through the lenses of positivism, consciousness (phenomenology), and linguistics (structuralism and poststructuralism). Illustrated with over 70 black-and-white images, this book establishes philosophical baselines for assessing architectural developments in China, past, present and future.
Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability
This research is an in-depth investigation of the renewed/new courtyard housing built in the Chinese cities of Beijing and Suzhou since the 1990s. The study explores the architectural, environmental, spatial, constructional, social, cultural, and behavioral aspects of the housing, to see whether it is culturally sustainable, and whether it facilitates residents' traditional cultural expressions. The theorization of cultural sustainability and culturally sustainable architecture in the Chinese context forms the theoretical contribution. The theorization of cultural sustainability relied mainly on literature review of the four pillars of sustainable development: environmental responsibility, e...
Leading For Educational Lives
This book is written for the growing number of people (teachers, administrators, support staff, parents, and community members) throughout the world who wish to face the challenges of school leadership in ways that feel right, make sense, and contribute to sustaining defensible educational practices. Using and extending the evolving core ideas of the global inviting school movement, it provides a hopeful approach to educational leadership, management, and mentorship that combines philosophical defensibility, administrative savvy, and illustrative stories. A systematic framework for examining the challenges of educational leadership, the Educational LIVES model, is used to organize the book. ...
