A cidade tem vindo, com o avançar do tempo, a tornar-se cada vez menos virtuosa. As ansiedades sentidas pelo habitante da metrópole implicam a necessidade de rever o modo como o ser humano interpreta o espaço à sua volta. A completa dissociação do homem da sua envolvente traz da…
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This dissertation explores the experience of arriving in the port cities of Asia Minor and the Aegean islands from the Hellenistic through the Early Roman periods, describing the historical, environmental, and architectural backgrounds of these sites and offering an outline of t…
Esta tesis reflexiona acerca de los límites internos en un contexto de paisaje unitario. Se plantea un traspaso desde la noción de frontera como una línea delgada que divide recintos, de carácter administrativo, hacía la de borde como un espesor que configura lugares dentro del …
The Nigerian city of Lagos has been the site of an unprecedented explosion in Pentecostal Christianity, even as the city's population has increased exponentially and its infrastructure has become strained. Pentecostal organizations have blanketed the city with their discourse, w…
In this dissertation, I study a critical transition in the urban development of Tell es-Sweyhat, a large site in Syria occupied from c. 3000-1900 BCE. In the middle of the third millennium, Sweyhat was an open town centered on a fortress. It was ringed with cemeteries and had a …
The archaeological site of Kültepe (ancient Kanesh), located in south-central Anatolia, in the present-day Republic of Turkey, was the capital city of a native Anatolian kingdom during the early Middle Bronze Age (20th - late 18th c. BC). Uninterrupted archaeological excavations…
Scholarship on late antique cities has largely conceptualized them as singular entities, either decaying or transitioning as Roman imperial power and economic structures shifted. Improved archaeological data from urban sites, accompanied by a number of broad synthetic studies, n…
Despite decades of archaeological excavations in the western Wādī Hadramūt and its tributaries, when compared to its neighbors in Southwestern Arabia, the Pre-Islamic kingdom of Hadramūt is poorly understood. The interior Wādī Hadramūt of the Islamic period is even less well kno…
This dissertation is an examination of inter-regional interaction and urbanism in the Greater Indus region of Pakistan and northwestern India during the period that encompassed the development, existence and decline of South Asia's first urbanized society, the Indus Civilization…
A comprehensive characterization of Old Kingdom settlement is difficult to glean from the hints of urbanism known from the few archaeological sites from this period that have been excavated. This study takes in the settlements associated with pyramid complexes of the Old Kingdom…
According to the UN-Habitat, "developing countries will have 80% of the world's urban population in 2030. By then Africa and Asia will include almost seven out of every ten urban inhabitants in the world." (UN-Habitat, 2006) "the Dubai Fever can be found all over cities in count…
The transition from mobile hunting and gathering societies to settled agricultural and urban societies first took place in the ancient Near East. This transition is a pivotal phase in a process that has ultimately led to the proliferation of urbanized spaces and societies worldw…
In southwest France starting in the early thirteenth century, an estimated 500 to 700 new towns were created over the course of about 150 years. These new towns, or "bastides," were most often created on unoccupied lands and took the form of a geometric grid plan that was design…
First named by von Oppenheim over a century ago, the distinctive third millennium BC kranzhügeln, or "wreath-mound," sites of the Syrian Desert remain a poorly understood phenomenon. While archaeological investigations have been undertaken at a handful of kranzhügel -like sites …
Once Rome's greatest rival for the role of capital of the Mediterranean, the North African city of Carthage was razed by the Roman consul Scipio Aemilianus in 146 BCE immediately after the Third Punic War and remained forsaken for almost a century.1 Claiming to have found the de…
Macedonia and Thrace were a geographically expansive and culturally intertwined crossroads for people, goods, and ideas in the northeast corner of the ancient Mediterranean. During their integration into the Roman Empire (2nd century BC - mid-1st century AD), Macedonia and Thrac…
From the 9th-5th centuries BCE (Early Iron Age through Early Republican period), Rome changed drastically from a collection of hut compounds into a substantial urban center. While historically this time period has offered little archaeological material, recent excavations in Rom…
The scope of this piece of work is to reflect upon a series of past and recent publications as well as those in progress referring to innovations in architectural education which has already led and/or might lead to major shifts in future practices. This is an opportunity for th…
S.H.A.M (the Syrian House of Architectural Memory) is an acronym to the word ash- Shām, or Sham which means the Levant, in general, and Damascus, in particular in the local spoken tongue.