Time Semantics As An Expression In Architecture,
2026
Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq
Time Semantics As An Expression In Architecture, Khalil Ibrahim Ali, Hadeer Jassim Al-Saady
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
The concept of time had stood to confront philosophical studies in severalfields of kaowledge, including archilecture, demanding an understanding of thisphenomenon.Time remained invisible, and only felt by sense, intuition and abstraction;unconnected to architecture as an expression of form.This paper tries to relate time to architecture not as an evolutionary conceptin architectural change but as a factor which evolves with significance in expressiveaspect.It presents findings, which illustrates time as a signifier to architecturalvision and expression.
Architecture In Enrichment :An Explorative Study Of The Formal Enrichment Achieved By Contrast,
2026
Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Mosul- Iraq, Mosul, Iraq.
Architecture In Enrichment :An Explorative Study Of The Formal Enrichment Achieved By Contrast, Asma Hasan Taha Al Dabbagh
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
Architectural literatures and practices presented the concept of Enrichment as one of the solutions for the problems of Modemism. The importance of this concept emerges due to its relation with other phenomena like visual complexity and ambiguity. Enrichment is a product character and a strategy to its creation. This product possess abundance and detail in the visual tools causing the meaning nrichment and its readiness for multi interpretations. This concept is present in to two levels; the first, formal and includes complexity and riddles, while the second is moral which includes the multiinterpretations. These sub-concepts cover many tools to achieve …
Pointed Arch In Islamic Architecture Between Intentional Innovation & Spontaneous Aim,
2026
Architectural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering-University of
Baghdad.
Pointed Arch In Islamic Architecture Between Intentional Innovation & Spontaneous Aim, Kabila Fares Al-Maliki
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
Arch is founded in Islamic Arabic Architecture in many different Buildings, for aethetical and functional purposes that made this Arch one of its symbols, parallel with it, so the study of this Arch is very important. Many studies took care of this arch, pointed arch with four centers that it is Islamic Arab innovation comparative with all other kinds of arches.We don't know why this arch is specially innovated & used in Islamic Arab Architecture? What its relationship with pointed Arch by two centers? What causes behind this innovation? This study aim to search in many concepts explain the innovation …
Strangeness In Contemporary Architecture As A Strategy,
2026
Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq
Strangeness In Contemporary Architecture As A Strategy, Khalil Ibrahim Ali, Emad Abd Al Hameed, Abbas Ali Hamza Al Greiza
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
Throrgh the last four decades of the 20th Century, architecture, as a language, was studied in various directions, which were concemed either with meaning, or with expressive methods. Both directions aimed to enrich it with meaning and significance; which are contradictory and harmonious. To accomplish continuity between architecture and the receiver in the social order, design strategies utilized other fields ol knowledge such as literature, linguistics or sociology... etc. Which merged the two directions. From these, strangeness and differences were realized and studied in this paper.
Pluralism In Architecture,
2026
Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq
Pluralism In Architecture, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
When studying the concepts that form architecture through analyzing its results along the time, the tension of intellect between the spiritual and intellectual aspects arises.The human civilizations through the history was always attempting to alien between the spiritual and metaphysical research , and the pure scientific research considering the first as studying the mysterious pheno nena , while science deals with what is researchable subject to analysis which provides a concrete base for discussion as it offers clear facts that could be experimented and tested , because science demands from human beings to deal with the universe and the facts …
Mechanisms For The Retrieval Of Meanings In Urban Renewal,
2026
College of Arts / Al-Mustansiriya University
Mechanisms For The Retrieval Of Meanings In Urban Renewal, Khales Hasan Al-Ashaab, Maysoun Mouhy Hlal
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
The Urban strategies organized t}re materialism and formalism characteristicsof the urban fabric limiting types and distribution the activities. And the nature oftheuse despite the difference of nature ofthese strategies but they work away to:l - Limitate the size of the city and its expansion, for the aim ol decrease the costs ofsupply the services levels, to improving the administrative systems, and preventthe social disintegration by protecting the environmental and social characteristicsto it.2- To recognize the land use to ensure the environmental and functional ability, tocontrol the traffic and the main movement and its branchs. Commonly, the urbanstrategy declares on itself …
Characteristics Of Urban Housing Units And Their Relation To The Economic And Social Characteristics Of Their Residents - A Field Study On The City Of Mosul,
2026
Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Mosul- Iraq, Mosul, Iraq.
Characteristics Of Urban Housing Units And Their Relation To The Economic And Social Characteristics Of Their Residents - A Field Study On The City Of Mosul, Mumtaz Hazim Aldauji
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
Iraqi cities have a rapid growth in their urban area with explosive populationincrease. This growth is accompanied with advent of various residential pattems. Thephenomenon is conspicuously explicit in Mosul as the major urban center in the northregion of Iraq.The hypothesis which states that residential pattems -by means of their physicalfeatures and location within urban area- are correlated with the occupants'characteristics including demographic, socio-economic, ethnic, cultural . . etc. isadopted and to be tested in order to determine the nature and scope ofthis relationshipin Mosul.
Specialty Of Concept "Creativity " In Architecture,
2026
Department of Architecture / University of Technology
Specialty Of Concept "Creativity " In Architecture, Maysoon Safi Yaser
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
Architecture is one of the most effective changing methods in society. It's a cultural phenomena that reveal thoughts and believes of its society through its production. That production must have the power to introduce the unique, and which never been known. To achieve that is what could be named "Creativity". The object of this research is concerned with clarifying the concept "Creativity" in general, and its specialty in Architecture. The method which have been followed was by: l. Clarifying the concept in philosophy and linguistics theories because of itsinfluence on Architecture. 2. Clarifuing the concept in different theoretical attitudes and …
The Relation Between Spatial Organization Of The City And Its Function,
2026
Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq
The Relation Between Spatial Organization Of The City And Its Function, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
The city , is one of the expanded and most complex systems that the human beings ever known, as it exist through continuous development and changing process through time. Each generation extends substitutes , re-arranges and adopts what it inherits before passing with to the new generation, therefore the city can be called ina moment of time as a group of dynamic processes more than being constant facts. The city is a product ofa large number of resolutions within its reality, having the small and large measurement to be connected with the social structures and ideological constructions of its occupant, …
Preferences An Office In Commercial Administration,
2026
Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq
Preferences An Office In Commercial Administration, Khalil Ibrahim Ali, Oday Abbas Abood
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
This speech resemble the Identity ofArchitecture. A task which makes busy the thinkersand educated class people in general and the Alchitectures in special, on a basic that theIdentity resembles thoughts which are as a kind of eagemess and retuming back for the pasttill the point of resembling, as to be an expression for its role to achieve Identity this researchdeals with through two axis the first relate in describing the dimension and sides ofthereferences in general sight and in Architecture in special sight. The research discusses theArchitecture through explaining the linguistic and Idiomatic dimensions the philosophicalside enlighten this reality and …
Local Environment Analysis In Urban Design Studies,
2026
Department of Architecture / University of Technology
Local Environment Analysis In Urban Design Studies, Adel Said Hadi
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
The absence of clear understanding and awareness of local urban environmentanalysis and its impact on urban design studies, in addition to the influence ofnew westemarchitectural theories and ideas, had led to the problems ofcopying and repeating urbandesign solutions by some professional architects and students .This paper discusses the impact of local environmental analysis in preparing efficienturban design projects.It aimes at clarifying the importance of carrying out urban environment field studiesto bridge the gap between theory and practice in the urban design ideology.It presents a proposed methodology to diagnose environmental problems and to findpossible solutions in the urban design projects.
The Design Concepts Of "Shanashel", And Its Effect On Functional And Environmental Performance,
2026
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
The Design Concepts Of "Shanashel", And Its Effect On Functional And Environmental Performance, Saba Jabar Niema
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
The design concepts of uaditional architecture have had greet potentiality throughtime for all social and environmental needs of the place and its inhabitance.And the idea of analyzing their contents and meaning to understand their effects inarchitecture on it both sides (theory and practice), in order to adapt their beneficial parametersfor modem architecture is so important for environmental design.This research concems with one of the design concepts of the traditional houses in theold fabric of the city which is the (Shanashel), and discuses their geometrical configuration,formal look, and material effect to show its functional and environmental performance(climate and acoustics). And has …
Comparative Features In Islamic Architecture,
2026
Architectural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering-University of
Baghdad.
Comparative Features In Islamic Architecture, Kabila Fares Al-Maliki, Nadia Abdel-Majeed Al-Salam, Taghrid Zuhair Najib Al-Zubaidi
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
Most of the recent architectural studies direct?d towered the necessity of using the architectural characterization of the cultural inherited of the Islamic Architecture in the futurist designs, in away that unified the contemporary architecture with the historical roots.The contemporary architecture environment of the types and styles various in functions , forms and goals pushing on limitation of copying these types of traditional architectural elements , but trying to study and realize the cognitional meanings and using architectural solutions that had specific characterizations which connected with the theoretical believes which came from the cultural environment of the Islamic community in the …
Evaluation Of The Metaphorical Image In Architecture : A Study Of The Elements Of A Good Metaphor In The Iraqi Cultural Environment,
2026
Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Mosul- Iraq, Mosul, Iraq.
Evaluation Of The Metaphorical Image In Architecture : A Study Of The Elements Of A Good Metaphor In The Iraqi Cultural Environment, Ali Haidar Aljameel, Naam Behnam Minouna
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
The metaphorical image represented in the architectural works was subjected toevaluation by different social sectors perceiving them in the society. Despite thediversity in the studies related to metaphorical image. In addition, the specialstandards forwarded for metaphorical image were dependent on selective formula asthey were conjugated with the cultural context to which the critic belongs giving suchinterpretations. These studies.could not formulate a theoretical framework comprisedcultural contexts. Its methodology concentrated ontheconstructionof atheoreticalframework, the isolation of the variables related its main aspects, the clarification ofits measurements and the performance of a selected field study which includes themain aspects of the evaluation process.This papers …
Western And Arabic Islamic Architecture Discourse,
2026
Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq
Western And Arabic Islamic Architecture Discourse, Akram Jassim Alakkam
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
Many literatures concentrated on the issue of architecture discourse which identified by thespace of conceptual thought that has essential characteristics based on knowledge foundations anddistinctive historical, cultural, religious, and social dimensions. These literatures pointed to westemarchitecture discourse elements and Arabic Islamic architecture discourse and cultural,environmental and doctrinal reference, But these literatures didn''t present clear comparative picturefor those discourses.
Building The Measure Of The Coherence Of Space Organization As A Social Phenomenon,
2026
Architectural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering-University of
Baghdad.
Building The Measure Of The Coherence Of Space Organization As A Social Phenomenon, Bahjat Rashad Shahin, Wadah Abdu Lsaheb Al-Musouy
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
The sequence of values and sociality labilies fill with meanings and sample, and itsreflects the nature ofreaotion between a man and nature, because man doesn't part his urbainand Social nature from each other.From that, we can considered the spatial organization as a social phenomena, becauseit's more than collecting spatials, but it's represent a social fact, it's an Expression oftheSocial behavior for persons and groups who live it.So in Spatial organization we can see the bond between each person, and we candinguses the Social relations, and we oan see the Social problem through it.And although of the previous studies and researches …
The Theory And Its Reflection Research About The Theory Of Architecture,
2026
Military Industrialization Authority
The Theory And Its Reflection Research About The Theory Of Architecture, Asaad Yacoob, Oday Abbas Abood
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
The theoretical side is very important in Architecture because the Architecture in one of itsannouncements is just material acumilate which reflects a thoughtfut dimension to know moreabout effect and affect, we have to make clear the theoretical sides that reflects on and reflectsfrom it according to that theoretical dimension which takes it effects and its role in definingmore clear the image of Architecture in future. we have to explain exchanged effects andaffects between the Architecture and the theoretical side in the frame of a completedimensions for both ofthem the material and the theorical'.
Displacement In Architecture An Analytical Study In Contemporary Mosques Design,
2026
Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology- Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq
Displacement In Architecture An Analytical Study In Contemporary Mosques Design, Parizat Q. Hussein Fehmi Fehmi, Nada Khteer Al‐Nouaimi, Anwar Subhi Ramdan Al-Qaraghuli
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
Previous architectural studies have presented new concems for contemporarydesign of mosques. These concems were raised on both academic and professionallevels. what is significant is to elaborate on special aspects of these concems, instead of limited understanding without it being comprehensive enough to utilizc the mentaland intellectual content in the local meliue.Displacement represents a major concern specially its relationship to conceptsand forms; and what the design process aims at to achieve uniqueness in expression. It is possible to enterprite unique qualities in ideas expressed architecturally as adisplacement of current types, which is founded on a deep design problem.This paper discusses displacement …
Measurement Of Beauty In Architecture,
2026
Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq
Measurement Of Beauty In Architecture, Sahar Najeeb Karrufa
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
Several years ago an attempt was made to measure the beauty of thearchitectural design. The objective was to prepare the design for evaluation by acomputer. It was found that such measurement was very complicated and requiresmuch more research. Several more attempts were made to fill in ih" gup. but the totalpicture remained unclear. This paper attempts to draw a map for futuri work.The object of beauty in architecture depends on content and form. Contentincludes function and symbol. But the subject is complicated by the fact that beauty issubjective and changes according to viewer, time, and place.
The Technological Indicators Of The Relationship Between Structure And Form In Contemporary Interior Spaces,
2026
Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq
The Technological Indicators Of The Relationship Between Structure And Form In Contemporary Interior Spaces, Akram Jassim Alakkam, Hazim Al-Tek, Rand Hazim Agha
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
Some studies concentrated on the technology subject in architecture and specificallybetween form and structure in contemporary interior space. It has hypothesized the influenceof technology on relationship between structure and form is structurally and meaningfully.But that studies hasn't explain the significance degree ofthat relationship indicators.The aim of the research is to explore the significance degree ofthe technologicalrelationship indicators between form and structue in contemporary interior spaces. Theresearch's hypothesis that the significance degree of the indicators are varied.In order to tackle the investigation problem, the research employ (28tb) interior spacesas research setting, and, (10'n) respondents. The data was gathered through checklist andthrough …
