Architecture Separation from Nature During the 20th Century. Lattakia City as an example

The Human society and its development has a great link with architecture that forms a phenomenon with different objectives; the most important of these are the social ones that make what is called "the built environment" that stemmed spontaneously from its role in satisfying human needs, especially the social ones. This role was reduced at the beginnings of the pervious century and the result was a separation between architecture and its community in Lattakia city as a kind of aesthetic and sensual pollution for its buildings keeping it away from its peculiarity as a living phenomenon that is linked with its era and society. A system that moved from identifying the human architecture to strengthen the relation between humans and nature, and the relation between nature and its surrounding, the current situation and reasons that led to this separation between the urban architecture and its natural surroundings. The research concludes with recommendations and conclusions that might be a core to re-establish the relation between the architecture and surroundings through its regaining its role.

Aesthetic and Impact of Arab Calligraphy on Architecture and Interior Space Improvement

This research is an analytic study about the aestheticism and impact of Arab calligraphy on architecture and enriching the interior space through intellectual and religious factors and principles. It also deals with the relationship between the Arab calligraphy and plastic elements, such as decorative, geometric and floral elements and stalactites as well, which have had a clear role in interior and exterior architecture. The Functionalities and cotemporary aesthetic of such elements have been studied, as they are basic and alphabetical elements of plastic arts with a very important organic function as to keep the local identity. This study also sheds light on modern architectural experiences and various collection of the use of handwriting in new ways, while maintaining a special sense that keeps link with the ancient creative heritage.

The House as Container: Architecture in The House of the Seven Gables

It is argued that the Pyncheon house in The House of the Seven Gables is a metaphor of the family, a container for memory and culture, a structure with a body and soul, a text with two levels of meanings, and that its architecture is a cultural expression, an index of Hawthorne’s oeuvre, an external representation of the individuality of the Pyncheons, a means of reconstructing and materializing the past, and a replica of the architectural construction of characters constituting Hawthorne’s remarkable building in the novel.

Architecture between sensation and perception

Because of the importance of the human sense of the surrounding people, objects or circles and spaces, which makes everything in his life a different meaning and material or emotional value or both, it was necessary to study the meaning and concept of sense and interpretation of the mechanism of access to the conversion of tangible things in the ocean to perceptions of the same Mental and digital values, as well as in an attempt to interpret perceptions of mental, scientific and digital values through analytical, applied field-based analytical media to reach the senses and feelings of the building. This led the research to the need to know the difference between the sense and perception on the one hand, and research in the mechanism of the analysis of the intermediate of the inter-transfer between the two directions between the sensation and perception. Because architecture is one of the most important spaces that occupy the mind and passion of the users materially and emotionally, the study and analysis of the emotional sensation of users in the process of design and interpretation of the sense to reach the mental perception and the importance of design in accordance with the process of mental perception to reach a positive emotional feeling to the satisfaction of users.

CLIMATE RESPONSIVE BUILDING DESIGN STRATEGIES OF VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE IN SWAIDA CITY, SYRIA

The history of Swaida city in several civilizations was clear through architecture as if it formed a mixture of them all. Each culture had its own way of dealing with the environmental conditions, combining these design strategies accumulatively resulted in a rich architecture that deals with the environment in a very systematic way. On the other hand, the construction strategies dealt with a lot of limitation such as the lack of resources and experiences which were not available during those periods. This report describes the historical and climatical characteristics that Swaida city has, and reviews some design strategies that used to respond to climate challenges.