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Taxidermy Vs Urban Dynamics

THE Paradox OF Preservation In Urban & Architectural  Heritage Dr. Mustapha Ben-Hamouche Urban and architectural heritage in the Islamic world is gradually becoming an object of preservation policies due to the ever increasing cultural awareness. Old buildings and cities are believed to be the fortress of culture that helps societies preserve their identities and face […]

Architectural Design as a Place-Making Process

Mustapha Ben-Hamouche Teaching Architecture; CAAD and the lasting Modernism! Despite the fall of modernism and the rise of many post modern movements that praise cultural context such as vernacularism, neo-traditionalism and regionalism architectural education is still maintaining a lot of the modern traditions especially in architectural education (Ozkan S. 2005, Frampton K.1986, Steel J. 1997). […]