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Formal Characteristics of the Architectural Type of contemporary Mosques within the concept of Topology

Journal of Engineering


Field	Value

Title	Formal Characteristics of the Architectural Type of contemporary Mosques within the concept of Topology

Creator	Mahdi, Nawar Sami Mahdi, Saba Sami

Description	Mosques could be considered as one of the most powerful architectural types throughout historical ages. With their highly symbolic formal legacy, Mosques play an essential role in providing the Islamic city with its special identity. Nevertheless, the advent of digital technology and its ubiquity at different levels of architectural design marked the emergence of new tendencies in the Architecture of Mosques, represented by various models added to the storage of this architectural type. Consequently a review of these tendencies would be needed, aiming at pointing out the formal transformations and new suggested characteristics. The paper investigates the surviving and the disappearing formal components of the Mosque Type, and reviews the different ways they are contemporarily employed within the notion of Topology in Architecture. This is achieved through the study and analysis of several examples of contemporary mosques , with comparison to the development of the formal components undergone by the Mosque type.

Publisher	College of Engineering \| University of Baghdad

Date	2015-01-01

Type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article

Format	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document

Identifier	http://joe.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/main/article/view/483

Source	مجلة الهندسة; مجلد 21 عدد 1 (2015): Journal of Engineering (Eng. J.); 30-54 Journal of Engineering; Vol 21 No 1 (2015): Journal of Engineering (Eng. J.); 30-54 2520-3339 1726-4073

Language	eng

Relation	http://joe.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/main/article/view/483/416

Rights	Copyright (c) 2015 Eng. J.