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Guidelines For Spatial Regeneration In Iowa, Marwan Ghandour, Peter Goche
Guidelines For Spatial Regeneration In Iowa, Marwan Ghandour, Peter Goche
Marwan Ghandour
The natural space of Iowa was reinvented in the nineteenth century as a reflection of the rationality of capital production. This resulted in the overlay of a grid system of surveys that indiscriminately subdivided the land subduing its embodied natural and cultural characteristics. The grid provided the structure whereby farms, towns and cities were created to cover the entirety of the state and established a network of agricultural and industrial production. This modern landscape also produced the culture of the family farm, which, until the mid twentieth century, was the dominant production unit in Iowa. In the twenty first century, …
Instituting Exclusiveness: Modern Lebanese Architects And Their Society, Marwan Ghandour
Instituting Exclusiveness: Modern Lebanese Architects And Their Society, Marwan Ghandour
Marwan Ghandour
No abstract provided.
The Politics Of Traditional Contemporary Buildings, Marwan Ghandour
The Politics Of Traditional Contemporary Buildings, Marwan Ghandour
Marwan Ghandour
This paper surveys contemporary Buildings in Lebanon that incorporate traditional Elements, as a way to deconstruct possible meanings of this dominant practice in contemporary Lebanese Architecture. I will start by discussing what is meant by tradition in relationship to building activity in Lebanon and what issues do these buildings engage. Then I will move to discuss the production of the Traditional in architectural practice. I will conclude by looking at "traditional" Contemporary buildings as thlngs around which social relations are problematized.
Building As Social Practice, Marwan Ghandour
Building As Social Practice, Marwan Ghandour
Marwan Ghandour
The last century saw the establishment of various institutions that organized building construction in Lebanon as well as the formation of academic programs in architecture. The number of architects has grown from the handful who came from abroad in the first quarter of the twentieth century. With a skill known only to few, and forming a sophisticated class of professionals they, together with structural engineers, maintained exclusive legal access to the making of buildings. Architects have been involved in all matters of physical design, developing broad planning regulations as well as micro-scale spatial regulations that covered all Lebanese territory. On …
Building Law: A Critical Reading Of The Lebanese Case, Marwan Ghandour
Building Law: A Critical Reading Of The Lebanese Case, Marwan Ghandour
Marwan Ghandour
No abstract provided.