Since the nineteenth century two distinct domestic architectural traditions in the Scottish Highlands have been interpreted in Britain as representative of Highland and Scottish identity. But Scotland's positive national identification with both the indigenous turf-walled and thatched Highland blackhouse and the imposed white, regular forms of the eighteenth-century " improved cottage " and far...

technology affected human life in many ways in different eras of mankind history. today, the information and telecommunication technology has revolutionized basic structures of human life. changes are from the whole to the parts and vice versa, which include family and society too. family lost its former structure in the information age and differentiated from patriarchy family. societies have ...

technology affected human life in many ways in different eras of mankind history. today, the information and telecommunication technology has revolutionized basic structures of human life. changes are from the whole to the parts and vice versa, which include family and society too. family lost its former structure in the information age and differentiated from patriarchy family. societies have ...

the pavilion can be outlined among the most important architectural identity elements in persian gardens. usually these structures were built in the middle of the garden and at the confluence of two longitudinal and transverse axes in such a way that it could be seen from four sides to maximize the geometrical composition of the persian four-garden. although relatively different reasons for the...

maraghe observatory was built by such engineers as moayiededdin orozi etc. under supervision of khaje nasireddin tousi in 7th century ah. the most significant feature associated with maraghe observatory is the fact that architecture is employed to achieve astronomical purposes in this site. the reason for preferring observatory by astronomers was the fact that these units are superior to wooden...

Middle Eastern countries are suddenly confronted with the problem of a severe loss of architectural heritage, which is the material manifestation of their own cultural inheritance and thus that of their identity, particularly under conditions of a sudden, rapid, radical and haphazard way of transformation as imposed over a society and its cultural geography by global impacts. This paper aims to...

This paper presents an architectural pattern for structuring adaptive applications using aspectoriented programming in order to obtain separation of concerns. It is composed of known and novel patterns organized so as to provide good maintainability and modularity. 1