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Building Performance A Study For Evaluate Prefabricated Residational Buildings Performance, Ali Mohsen Jaafar Al-Khafaji, Asmaa M. H. Al- Moqaram, Auday Abbas Abood Apr 2026

Building Performance A Study For Evaluate Prefabricated Residational Buildings Performance, Ali Mohsen Jaafar Al-Khafaji, Asmaa M. H. Al- Moqaram, Auday Abbas Abood

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The performance concept expressed as the distance between what is needed and what is realized, and a solution to the problem of evaluating the suitability of the product for the application, which in turn is an important factor from which to evaluate the building and therefore the identification and development paths of practice and professional experience in the housing field . the performance concept adopted after the need dictated by the new circumstances in the construction field as a result of the emergence of new concepts aim was to move away from compliance to traditional construction systems and the transfer …

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Urban Form Types And Some Related Social Problems Of Multistorey Housing In Britain And The Gulf, Emad Mushtaha, Muhammed Arar, Faisal Hameed Apr 2026

Urban Form Types And Some Related Social Problems Of Multistorey Housing In Britain And The Gulf, Emad Mushtaha, Muhammed Arar, Faisal Hameed

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The urban expansion of the Gulf cities included many multi-storey housing projects of urban form types similar to those built in Britain during the post Second Wold War period of reconstruction. According to the literature, these types of urban form are associated with a number of social problems in relation to the health of some residents, anti-social behaviour of some youngsters, and some types of crime. The aim of this research is to identify the types of urban form in the context of the British built environment and to conduct a pilot study to investigate the presence of social problems …

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Humanization Of Arabic Islamic Architecture Architecture Between Needs Requirement & Ideal Theorization, Abdullah Saadoon Salman Almaamoori Apr 2026

Humanization Of Arabic Islamic Architecture Architecture Between Needs Requirement & Ideal Theorization, Abdullah Saadoon Salman Almaamoori

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Architecture is the content of human events, it is the most important products through history with all its structure of the formal elements, relations between them and the regulations governing the organization of space and movement patterns and formations that form the lives of their inhabitants to achieve the highest performance of the material without displacing the local building techniques and modern engineering into account the rules and the investment component of the site in order to find the structure of architectural humanism the surrounding elements of the natural environment to achieve the requirements basic, so the architecture is the …

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Color Harmony In Urban Environment, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Nada Abdul Mueen Hassan Apr 2026

Color Harmony In Urban Environment, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Nada Abdul Mueen Hassan

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Many studies have addressed the problem of visual distortion a and disharmony in urban facades in terms of styles , formations , compositions and materials ... Etc., which reflected negatively on the urban form and aesthetic character of the city, and as a result of imposing of colors and clear dissonant in its design harmony . This research deals with the concept of harmony in architecture in general and urban design in particular, draw the most important formulas to achieve Color harmony in the urban facades, the research problem states that "there is no clear perception of the formulas to …

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Daylight Design Graphs For Baghdad City Sky, Younis Saleem Apr 2026

Daylight Design Graphs For Baghdad City Sky, Younis Saleem

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Baghdad city constitutes one of the areas have clear sky with complex and ununiform distribution of light in the sky dome. This was one of the explanations why there is few studies concern with daylighting design in clear skies, from there, this research oriented to devise a new method that can assist in achieving the appropriate levels of lighting for interior spaces. The aim of this research is tempted to find a method that can help designers in achieving the appropriate levels of daylight in architectural spaces with different forms and sizes. The annual distribution rate of daylight was calculated …

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Representation In Activation The Interlocution Of Interior Spaces Language, Ahmed Louay Al Bajjari, Harith Assad Abdulrazzaq Apr 2026

Representation In Activation The Interlocution Of Interior Spaces Language, Ahmed Louay Al Bajjari, Harith Assad Abdulrazzaq

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The subject of representation in the Interior Design & Interior Architecture occupied an important place & a wide range of interesting by theorists, critics & practitioners of the jurisdiction of interior design, and came this interest in narrative theory & practical both in terms of the fact that the products of interior design are language & communication system with the receiver, This has pour practitioners jurisdiction interest to generate meanings intended and delivered through a formula of representation, while a theorists & critics made a lot of explanations in an attempt to discover the meaning of the work or approach, …

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The Role Of Technology In Urban Fragmentation Analytical Study For The Role Of Information And Communication Technologies In Urban Fragmentation, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Vian Abd Al-Baseer M. Hasan Apr 2026

The Role Of Technology In Urban Fragmentation Analytical Study For The Role Of Information And Communication Technologies In Urban Fragmentation, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Vian Abd Al-Baseer M. Hasan

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The research deals with one of the most important issues that faces cities during their growth, the “Urban Fragmentation”, which occurs to the city and its parts during its various stages of growth due to many different reasons , technology is one of the most important of those reasons. The research has defined the urban fragmentation as: The state of dismantling, losing coherence, and heterogeneity in urban form and structure, that is linked to the process of city growth, the state of urban fragmentation occurs on different levels such as the formal, spatial, functional and social levels, due to technological …

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Design Of Horizontal Shading Devices For Baghdad City's Buildings, Younis Saleem Apr 2026

Design Of Horizontal Shading Devices For Baghdad City's Buildings, Younis Saleem

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The use of sun control and shading devices is an important aspect of many energy-efficient building design strategies, where the shading of the building is the first step in the passive cooling systems in buildings. So the starting point of cooling systems is to reduce the solar heat gain by prevent solar radiation from entering the building in the hot period in the same time allow the daylight and benefit from achieving passive heating in cold period. This research interested with design of horizontal shading devices for buildings in Baghdad city. The research problem identified as the need to study …

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The Impact Of Technology On The Patterns Of The Arab-Islamic City, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Ahmed A. Mohammed Apr 2026

The Impact Of Technology On The Patterns Of The Arab-Islamic City, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Ahmed A. Mohammed

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The traditional Arab-Islamic city represented a reflection of the desires of the Arab-Muslim community and the Arab- Islamic character, and a clear expression of the religious and the cultural transformations of their different societies, and at the same time showed the physical structure formed by the characteristics of environmental and social principles and ideological, religious and spiritual values. The looking at the present Arab cities raise many fundamental and pressing questions regarding the continuity of the Arab- Islamic city in the present Arab societies. Is there still a real phenomenon of the "Arab-Islamic city", as active as the way it …

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The Effect Of Sun Breakers Characteristics On Wind Noise Generated By Them, Samar Hilal Askar, Miqdad Haidar Al-Jawadi Apr 2026

The Effect Of Sun Breakers Characteristics On Wind Noise Generated By Them, Samar Hilal Askar, Miqdad Haidar Al-Jawadi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

In hot regions like Iraq, where solar energy is very high, sun breaks are preferred to be implemented in design of the buildings as apart of the facade. Some types of sun breakers cause whistling noise or other types of noise which annoy occupants of the building especially if the building is residential. as it has been found, numbers of sun breakers may act similar in preventing sun ray penetration, therefore classified these shapes according to it's effects on causing noise may help designers in choosing the shapes matching there esthetic needs with less noise generating. Thus sun breakers with …

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Concepts In Architecture Between Theory And Practice, Anwar Subhi Ramdan Al-Qaraghuli Apr 2026

Concepts In Architecture Between Theory And Practice, Anwar Subhi Ramdan Al-Qaraghuli

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Architecture on both sides, theoretical and practical, deals with many concepts, according to the intellectual visions and different trends of architecture , in general, and of architectural designer, in particular. To highlight the importance of studying the concept in the architecture in terms of theoretical and practical aspects. The research problem came to point out” the lack of clear sight of the nature and levels of concepts that architecture deals with on both sides, theoretical and practical” Thus, the main goal of this research is to” make a clear understanding of concepts in architecture, which identifies the nature and levels …

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Visual Chaos Of The Formal Order Of The University Buildings Case Study – University Of Technology, Zainab Ibrahim Apr 2026

Visual Chaos Of The Formal Order Of The University Buildings Case Study – University Of Technology, Zainab Ibrahim

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

This Paper Studies Visual Chaos phenomenon in the University of Technology, after the development and rehabilitation of its Buildings, Which was the reason for the absence of the formal order Unity of its Buildings. So the aim of this paper is to built a base Knowledge to visual chaos phenomenon, Order and Formal Order. The research hypothesis was “there is a visual chaos in the formal order of the elevations and the master plan of the University of Technology”. The research defines the visual chaos as the absence of order in the formal pattern. The research has built a theoretical …

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The Aesthetic Impact For The Technique’S Presentation For Interior Architecture, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Rand Abbas A.H. Alkhaiat Apr 2026

The Aesthetic Impact For The Technique’S Presentation For Interior Architecture, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Rand Abbas A.H. Alkhaiat

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Man searches for a tool to reflect his thoughts and simulate what is around him of features, and through the various and different drawing techniques he can now portray what is around him and demonstrate it with different means as an integral whole. Where using the techniques requires using the experience and skill by drawing and architectural performance. The research problem was determined by the scientific need to know the nature of the aesthetical effect for the presentation techniques in internal architecture, where the research tries to disclose the nature of the aesthetical effect for the presentation techniques through the …

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Subjective And Objective In Architectural Modernity And Post Modernity, Falah Jaber, Abbas Ali Hamza Al Greiza Apr 2026

Subjective And Objective In Architectural Modernity And Post Modernity, Falah Jaber, Abbas Ali Hamza Al Greiza

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The architecture is the highest knowledge field and most reactive in human society where, human lives in this article includes subjective and objective concepts and the relationship between them. Also, this shows the relation between these two concepts and the science of society, in order to show the background knowledge between those two concepts and reflection on architectural idea. This article concentrates to clear this dualism in general architecture and in architectural modernity and post modernity in special aim, due to their relations. Each one completes the other concept in time also.

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The Effect Of Residential Re- Subdivision Analytic Study For Palestine Street From 2006-2010, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Farah Gazi Mohammed Apr 2026

The Effect Of Residential Re- Subdivision Analytic Study For Palestine Street From 2006-2010, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Farah Gazi Mohammed

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

This paper studies the concept of residential land re-subdivision, and the role of regulations, instructions and standards in organizing this process, to provide residential plots which are suitable in their dimensions and areas to the residence. Residential re-subdivision affected by many factors such as number of new households, their economic situation, and the plot areas; which enable the families to adopt this solution The residential land re-subdivision is a good solution to reduce shortage in housing stock, and minimizing the pressure on the residential demand , but at the same time it is a reason for increasing the accommodation and …

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The Effect Of Informatics In The Form&Function For Urban Scape Contemporary, Mohammed Ghazi Apr 2026

The Effect Of Informatics In The Form&Function For Urban Scape Contemporary, Mohammed Ghazi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The modern era have a dynamic and rapid change and transition which depend on technology, its applications and mechanisms, and then the current era is characterized by an informatics development which opened the doors for science and developments.. The era in which, the super word is going to be for that who can understand deeply the informatics development and who makes it locally settled, in order to make out of it an unique architecture form & function that can comply with the needs of society and reflects its intentions, then accomplishing a series of subjugating that suit the actual life …

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The Color Decisions For Classrooms In The Primary Schools And Its Impact To Form Prefect Educational Environment For Pupils, Jassem Muhammed Nama Apr 2026

The Color Decisions For Classrooms In The Primary Schools And Its Impact To Form Prefect Educational Environment For Pupils, Jassem Muhammed Nama

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

In our contemporary world, the child spends the most important period of (his/her) life in the school’s environment,which helps there growing up, and building there personality for there future life . However , namely in our country still suffers from poorness in the presence of clear , and pure colors in the interiors for many primary schools especially within the classroom structures . This is due to the lade of any database standards or requirements for designers based on research and lab. Work. Concerning the behavior of children in their classrooms. special colors can set our tool to run the …

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Digital Architecturestudying The Formality Characteristics Of "Digital Architecture", Lina Ghanim Yaqub Jajjawi Apr 2026

Digital Architecturestudying The Formality Characteristics Of "Digital Architecture", Lina Ghanim Yaqub Jajjawi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The digital revolution reflected on the architecture as it reflected on other scientific, living and social fields. It's effects emerged clearly in the architectural form, Hence the architectural products did not stop at the design using the traditional methods and producing pictures using computer but exceeded to where the form produced as a result to the imagination design affected directly by the digital media. There is a clear lack of knowledge in this aspect on the academic and professional levels within our local modern digitalization society. According the research problems was limited to "the lack of clear imagination of the …

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Developing A Conceptual Framework For Bridging The Gap Between (Theory And Practical) In Urban Design, Shaymaa Hameed Alahbabi Apr 2026

Developing A Conceptual Framework For Bridging The Gap Between (Theory And Practical) In Urban Design, Shaymaa Hameed Alahbabi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

There is confusion in professionals for the field of urban design results from the interactive nature of the relationship between the (Idea) and presnting it in a communication language. The problem becomes more complicated when shaping the (Concept) and the transition from the conceptual level to the next level applied. So the main focus of current research on the statement of what the idea and concept, and the transition mechanisms towards the application of the components of the process of urban design. It aims to search out the mechanics and easier the process of communication between the parties of jurisdiction …

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The Effect Of Using Alucoponed In Achieving Visual Unity And Attractionin Commercial Building(An Analytical Study Of Commercial Streets Elevations), Suzan Abd Hassan, Samah Abd Alziz Apr 2026

The Effect Of Using Alucoponed In Achieving Visual Unity And Attractionin Commercial Building(An Analytical Study Of Commercial Streets Elevations), Suzan Abd Hassan, Samah Abd Alziz

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The appearance of composite materials and there wide speared use for cladding commercial buildings in the commercial streets context has an effect on visual unity & attractive for these streets, form this research problem is that there is no clear and fine percept of the effect using composite materials (Alucoponed) in cladding commercial buildings in the commercial streets context on achieve visual unity. And the research hypothesis is (The use of composite materials Alucoponed reduce visual unity& attractive in commercial streets general context and in the same time give a visual attractive for single building). the research aims to find …

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The Role Of Multi Sensory Responsive Architecture In Forming Distinctness Imagesat Interior Spaces, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Shamael Mohammed Wajeeh Al Dabbagh Apr 2026

The Role Of Multi Sensory Responsive Architecture In Forming Distinctness Imagesat Interior Spaces, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Shamael Mohammed Wajeeh Al Dabbagh

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The description of modern spaces is lacking in full range of sensory cues , which are not present in most modern spaces . They have also been neglected by designers, by not being consciously manipulated and by not allowing them to happen .There is currently an increased desire for sensory involvement for seeing, touching , smelling , hearing and feeling of kinesthetic – a desire for increased sensuality manifest in many fields , witch may permit architecture with multi sensory information, if only designers can take advantage . Research calls for the approach that embraces all human being senses and …

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The Information Technology Effmts On Acoustic Comfort In Exhibition Halls By Using ..Ecotect" Program, Rudhab Ahmed Mahmood, Safaaaldeen Ali Apr 2026

The Information Technology Effmts On Acoustic Comfort In Exhibition Halls By Using ..Ecotect" Program, Rudhab Ahmed Mahmood, Safaaaldeen Ali

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Comfort concept is not only limited to thermal comfort, as some people think. On the contrary, it is a broad concept which includes several aspects that must be taken into consideration when designing. Acoustic comfort is considered as one of the most important of these aspects, especially in large space buildings, as acoustic design is an essential designing need whose integration with other designing needs brings about comfort in its broadest concept. The acoustic design and achieving the acoustic needs in specialized audio halls and mosques has been the topic of several studies. But the lack of studies, if any, …

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The Effect Of Morphological Changes In Urban Fabric On Its Syntactical Properties-A Case Study In Mosul Old Suq-, Mumtaz Hazim Aldauji, Hussain Salmaan Albutani, Ayad Waleed Jalal Apr 2026

The Effect Of Morphological Changes In Urban Fabric On Its Syntactical Properties-A Case Study In Mosul Old Suq-, Mumtaz Hazim Aldauji, Hussain Salmaan Albutani, Ayad Waleed Jalal

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Urban centers had been grew and expanded gradually with a little renewal of their parts . In the past, this process was very slowly due to limited development in needs .Most renewal works occurred as a response to destruction caused by natural disasters or wars . This was true until the industrial revolution which was accompanied with a dramatic changes in transportation systems and the necessity to erect wide streets in most historic centers .In many cases ,these works did not take in consideration the importance of spatial attributes of such centers . Assuming that syntactical properties of any urban …

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The Health Architecture, Miqdad Haidar Al-Jawadi, Ibtisam Sami Muhammed Apr 2026

The Health Architecture, Miqdad Haidar Al-Jawadi, Ibtisam Sami Muhammed

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

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Sculpture And Contemporary Architecture, Rasha Subbhy, Aseel Ibrahem Apr 2026

Sculpture And Contemporary Architecture, Rasha Subbhy, Aseel Ibrahem

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Architecture is one of the constructive Arts, but it is distinguished from the rest of the arts (sculpture, painting) as a functional utility, has been argued to be defined as the mother of art because they contain other arts in its subjects, while the sculpture is an incorporating art based on the establishment of three-dimensional replicas. There is direct relationship between architecture and sculpture through the incorporation of abstract forms of multiple spatial semantics with expressive manner.Sculptureal architecture has appeared at the late Modern period through the generation of pure sculptural form with high technical characters and exaggerating style. Where …

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The Strategy Of Urban Development Of The Citatel Cities Comparative Study Between Design Strategy Of The Development Of The Citadel Of Aleppo And The Citadel Of Erbil, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Shymaa Fadhil Alkubaisi Apr 2026

The Strategy Of Urban Development Of The Citatel Cities Comparative Study Between Design Strategy Of The Development Of The Citadel Of Aleppo And The Citadel Of Erbil, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Shymaa Fadhil Alkubaisi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The research deals with the impact of historical citadel on urban development for city canters and their importance in shaping the urban areas of the city, as an attempt to define the best possible strategies for urban development of historical cities and in particular (citadel cities), which represents a tourist attraction on both global and local levels. Erbil city has been selected, as a case study for this research, since this fortress citadel having nowadays a comprehensive urban development, which creates an interactive effect for the urban fabric of the citadel and the urban fabric of the city of Erbil …

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Globlization And Its Effect On The Building System, Mazin Thafir Musa Apr 2026

Globlization And Its Effect On The Building System, Mazin Thafir Musa

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The Globalization has emerged and developed over several decides. This ideology which was set to constitutes the globe was not just to serve the world but to serve the entrusts of it’s believers for control and dominance. They’re for this ideology had to create anew world system, capable of constant reformation and changing. This new ideology made tools of technology, science, and economy as means have achieve it’s fundamental gals, no matter how these means have deferred and contradicted towards achieving the gals, they will seventhly serve the it’s main propose, which this comprehensive ideology seeks for. This contempory ideology …

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Rhythm In Traditional Facades A Lanes Of The Old Mosul City, Talaat Alaane, Hussein Albotany Apr 2026

Rhythm In Traditional Facades A Lanes Of The Old Mosul City, Talaat Alaane, Hussein Albotany

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Maintaining the characteristic and identity is considered of great importance to today's architecture because it as an extension of the architecture of the past and a bridge to the architecture of the future. Rhythm is an important component in dedicating the architectural characteristic and identity as the comprehension of the basic fundamentals that have contributed in creating and maintaining architecture, are inspired by the characteristic that occupies a prominent place in architecture. Thus, the study is an attempt to expound the essential terms and basic fundamentals that are a pivot of rhythm in faced design in the old Mosul city. …

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Formal Characteristics Of Vernacular Architecture In Erbil City And Other Iraqi Cities, Mahmood Ahmed Bakir Khayat, Binyad Maruf Abdulkadir Khaznadar Apr 2026

Formal Characteristics Of Vernacular Architecture In Erbil City And Other Iraqi Cities, Mahmood Ahmed Bakir Khayat, Binyad Maruf Abdulkadir Khaznadar

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

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The Local Features In The Islamic Architecture, Ahmad Abdulwahid Thannoon Apr 2026

The Local Features In The Islamic Architecture, Ahmad Abdulwahid Thannoon

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Islamic architecture has spread in a wide geographical regions, covering many areas and cities with distinct civilizations, Most of these areas and cities imposed their local architectural features on the forms of Islamic buildings in these areas due to the flexibility that characterized the process of composition output of Islamic architecture represented in different functional patterns as mosques, palaces, schools, baths and markets. This paper tries to study in-depth the existence of these local features and its assets in a range of distinct civilized areas covered by Islamic architecture. Reviewing previous studies concerning the research topic revealed the problem of …

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