Architectural identity demystified: visual voices from the Arab world

Ashraf M Salama

Architectural identity demystified: visual voices from the Arab world

Ashraf M Salama

Architecture

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Abstract

This chapter offers a positional interpretation and interrogates the irony of identity, tradition and modernity by critically outlining a number of visual voices that represent selected interventions developed within the Arab World. Through a reading of trends that emerged over the past few decades an effort is made to place such a reading in focus by outlining contextual geo-cultural politics and their inferences on the shaping of architectural identity. An approach for a deeper insight into contemporary Arab architecture within which inevitable trends co-exist is framed based on positivistic and anti-positivistic positions and their underlying ontological and epistemological perspectives.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Cultural Role of Architecture
Subtitle of host publication	Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Editors	Paul Emmons, Jane Lomholt, John S Hendrix
Place of Publication	London
Pages	175-185
Number of pages	11
Publication status	Published - 31 Jan 2012

Keywords

architectural identity
Arabian Peninsula
symbolism
meaning

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