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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136085703321

Autore

Koç Gülşah <1987->

Titolo

Cultural influences on architecture / / Gülşah Koç, Marie-Thérèse Claes, and Bryan Christiansen, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hershey, Pennsylvania : , : IGI Global, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

9781522517450

9781522517443

Descrizione fisica

PDFs (351 pages) : illustrations

Collana

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

Disciplina

720.1/03

Soggetti

Architecture and society

Architecture - Human factors

Sociology, Urban

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The role of cultural indoctrination in architectural style: religion as a mediator / Gülsah Koç, Bryan Christiansen -- Evolution of construction systems: cultural effects on traditional structures and their reflection on modern building construction / Meltem Vatan -- The communicative nature of space in organizations / Virginia W. Kupritz -- Human figure as a cultural mediator in architectural drawings / Fabio Colonnese -- Two unique protected sites with a modern heritage in historical peninsula in Istanbul / Gülhan Benli, Aysun Ferrah Güner -- City of beats: analysing flânerie as a practice for living the physical space / Silvia Torsi -- "Bridges" and "gaps" on maps of multicultural cities: the story of the south Russian agglomeration / Oxana Karnaukhova -- Psychological (and emotional) architecture: the values and benefits of nature-based architecture - Biophilia / Ben Tran -- The architect of organizational psychology: the Geert Hofstede's dimensions of cultural (corporate and organizational) identity / Ben Tran -- The fundamentals of social capital / Kijpokin Kasemsap.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book is a 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, and fundamentals of social capital"--Provided by publisher.