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Dubai. Una capitale contemporanea
(Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani, 2020-09)
Dubai is the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates, in the Arabian Peninsula, on the western shores of the Persian Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz. The discovery of oil fields, starting from ...
Made without hands: survey, history and valorisation of the monastery of Panagia Acheiropoietos, Cyprus
(Firenze University Press, 2020)
The north of Cyprus is a very complex area in terms of Cultural Heritage. The surveys of the Monastery of Acheiropoietos were undertaken in a scarcely studied context in which the political situation can generate important ...
Learning from vernacular architecture in architectural education
(Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, 2020)
This study focuses on the potential for effectively using knowledge about vernacular architecture in programs of architectural education and it proposes a course as a mean of doing so. The first section emphasizes the ...
Shifting point-attractors: the central-symmetric flexi of via Flaminia and via Clodia near pons Milvius, Rome
(U+D editions, Rome, 2020)
Recent urban morphology studies consider urban tissues as living organisms changing in time (Strappa, Carlotti, and Camiz, 2016), moreover even roads may be considered as organisms, and their diachronic deformations have ...
Kallithea, Rhodes: a summer thermal bath resort at the border of the Italian Fascist Empire and its reuse today
(Routledge, 2020-05-01)
As part of the architectural heritage left by the Italians during their occupation of the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean Sea, this article presents the thermal bath resort complex in Kallithea, Rhodes, its history, life ...
From Galata to Pera: Shifting borders in Ottoman Society (1453-1923)
(Springer International Publisher, 2021-06-01)
Since ancient times the settlement of Galata was positioned on the Golden Horn opposite Byzantium. This area, that became the Genoese walled town, developed inside. Beyond the furthest northern point of the settlement, ...
Settlement scale analysis approach to reach nearly zero energy communities
(Springer, 2020-01-01)
The European Union directive on the energy performance of buildings was revised and republished in 2010, as EPBD Recast, introducing new terms as cost-optimal and nearly zero energy levels. It mandated that by 2018 all new ...
Mind the T-Square: Mindfulness-Based stress reduction for design students and its modes of action on studio performance and critique anxiety
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020)
This study investigates the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on the studio performance and critique anxiety of design students. Nine interior architecture students in their fourth year at a private ...
Multi-criteria performance evaluation of a glass panel system using full-scale experimental data
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-11-01)
In order to better evaluate the lifetime performance of glass panel facade systems, this study firstly proposes to conduct a full-scale wind resistance, air/water infiltration, and seismic resistance tests. Two specimens ...
Forma Civitatis: playing with meaning and form
(Grünberg Verlag, 2021)
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