banjarmasin is known as a tidal waterfront city and it is called city of a thousand rivers. thecity level was approximately -16 cm below the sea level and almost a swamp-land. the urbanization and the citydevelopment programs have changed the city’s physical and spatial plan from a wetland to a mainland structure. theissues of the city's transformation have changed the city structure from ...

Transferring a building type from its original context (in the sense of genius loci) into foreign environment for which it was not intended, is equivalent to transplantation. As case studies show, evoked response does necessarily have be negative. Rather, this phenomenon understood as an external impulse that influences regional architectural development. This paper examines principle architect...

the architectural education along the way of creativity has often involved with the formal and physical aspects of design as an effort to read architectural artifacts through its mere external appearances. this article, however, aims to step beyond the manifestation of conventional perspectives on visual aspects of built environment. that is, an act of interpreting the architectural spaces thro...

Appearance of nationalism in each country is influenced by some social , religious and political factors throughout the history of that country In Iranian contemporary history, this process has also been dependent upon opinions and thoughts of some of the nationalist intellectuals and modernists their intellectual products played an important role in various social , intellectual and even artis...