Sustainable Environments focuses on the type of architectural details in distinctive, sustainable residential spaces. It includes sections on components such as cooling or shading devices, building techniques that create minimal impact on the land, active systems, and the use of…
""Colonial," "Victorian," "Neoclassical," "Modern"--What distinguishes one architectural style from another? How and where did these different styles develop? America has an abundance of fascinating and varied house styles, as fascinating and diverse as its people. When we explo…
A comprehensive guide to domestic architecture. Focusing on dwellings in urban and suburban neighborhoods and rural locations all across the continental United States, this guide provides in-depth information on the essentials, with facts and frames of reference that will enable…
Japan has always intrigued the world with its deceptively simple blending of architecture, landscape and design. Zen temples, the famous tea ceremony, formal gardens, the use of wood, paper and other materials in the form of screens and floors all have evolved over the years to …
Japan has always intrigued the world with its deceptively simple blending of architecture, landscape and design. Zen temples, the famous tea ceremony, formal gardens, the use of wood, paper and other materials in the form of screens and floors all have evolved over the years to …
This study assesses the environmental response, adaptation qualities and adaptation capacities of Arabic vernacular architecture, taking into account how these aspects help to provide suitable thermal comfort, while also catering to the psychological needs and preferences of inh…
This dissertation aims to reconstruct the late-third millennium urban layout at Titris Höyük, in southeastern Turkey, in the context of incipient urbanism in northern Mesopotamia. In so doing, particular attention is paid to how the non -elite city inhabitants organized their da…
The aim of this thesis was to document the development of the Christian Nubian house and its variations in form between different geographic and political regions, within the kingdoms of Nobatia, Makuria and Alwa. Chronologies describing the evolution of Nubian church architectu…
From 1950 to 1973, Dr. Rodney Young and a team from the University of Pennsylvania carried out extensive archaeological excavations at the site of Gordion in central Turkey. Their work revealed the modest houses of a sprawling and lively agricultural settlement that grew at the …
This dissertation uses a methodology based on the analysis of archaeological and documentary evidence to investigate the domestic architecture, city plan and urban development of the city of Ascalon in the Byzantine and Islamic periods. It develops an archaeological application …