Cultural Influences on Architecture

Cultural Influences on Architecture

Gülşah Koç, Marie-Therese Claes, Bryan Christiansen

Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 352

ISBN13: 9781522517443|ISBN10: 1522517448|EISBN13: 9781522517450

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1744-3

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A society’s culture is a contributing factor to the structure and design of its architecture. As contemporary globalism brings about the evolution of the world, architectural style evolves along with it, which can be observed on an international scale.

Cultural Influences on Architecture is a pivotal reference source for the latest research on the impact of culture on architecture through the aspects of planning and production, and highlights the importance of communicative dimension in design. Featuring exhaustive coverage on a variety of relevant perspectives and topics, such as the evolution of construction systems, benefits of nature-based architecture, and fundamentals of social capital, this publication is ideally designed for researchers, scholars, and students seeking current research on the connection between culture and architecture on a global level.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts (AMEA) Book Series

Dedication

Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Chapter 1

The Role of Cultural Indoctrination in Architectural Style: Religion as a Mediator (pages 1-34)

Gülşah Koç, Bryan Christiansen

This chapter examines the potential influence of cultural indoctrination (CI) on architectural style worldwide. Based on an encompassing literature review, this chapter focuses on the mediator of religion among the seven factors...

Chapter 2

Evolution of Construction Systems: Cultural Effects On Traditional Structures and Their Reflection On Modern Building Construction (pages 35-57)

Meltem Vatan

This chapter is going to deal with the evolution of structural systems; traditional structural systems, modern structural systems and more than traditional approach to the structural systems. Beyond this, even though this chapter is...

Chapter 3

The Communicative Nature of Space in Organizations (pages 58-89)

Virginia W. Kupritz

This chapter examines the important role of space in communication. Design scholars have long recognized the importance of context, but few have gone further than to acknowledge that space has a communicative dimension. While design...

Chapter 4

Human Figure as a Cultural Mediator in Architectural Drawings (pages 90-129)

Fabio Colonnese

In architectural drawings, human figures generally express the scale of design space. Their presence is supposed to be a sign of a particular sensibility toward human scale and needs and over the centuries, figures were capable of...

Chapter 5

Two Unique Protected Sites with a Modern Heritage in Historical Peninsula in Istanbul (pages 130-156)

Gülhan Benli, Aysun Ferrah Güner

Suleymaniye and Zeyrek areas in the Historical Peninsula containing a combination of the architectural works of different religions, different cultures and communities are two districts which were entitled to be included in UNESCO...

Chapter 6

City of Beats: Analysing Flânerie as a Practice for Living the Physical Space (pages 157-180)

Silvia Torsi

The flâneur is the urban vagabond in search of experiences and inspirations from serendipitously exploring a city environment. This construct is put beside post-modern stances about the suburban areas built and populated after the...

Chapter 7

“Bridges” and “Gaps” on Maps of Multicultural Cities: The Story of the South Russian Agglomeration (pages 181-199)

Oxana Karnaukhova

The city is a sum of feasible expressions of social and historical evolution and space identity. The uniqueness of a place is formed not only by contemporary infrastructure, but by the cultural environment deeply anchored in the...

Chapter 8

Psychological (and Emotional) Architecture: The Values and Benefits of Nature-Based Architecture – Biophilia (pages 200-230)

Ben Tran

Wilson calls biofilia an “innate tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes” (Wilson, 1984, p. 1), an “innate emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms” (Wilson, 1993, p. 31), or an “inborn affinity human...

Chapter 9

The Architect of Organizational Psychology: The Geert Hofstede's Dimensions of Cultural (Corporate and Organizational) Identity (pages 231-258)

Ben Tran

Globalization, used in the architect of the organizational psychology world, often evokes images of a shrinking world, in which accelerating flows of information and travel technology compares time and space in the relationships...

Chapter 10

The Fundamentals of Social Capital (pages 259-292)

Kijpokin Kasemsap

This chapter explains the overview of social capital (SC); the dimensions of SC; SC, culture, and architecture; SC and economic growth; SC and knowledge management (KM); SC and social networking sites (SNSs); SC and health...

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Compilation of References

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