FORM AND BUILDING MATERIALS AS A FACTOR OF CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE

The article discusses the cultural and ecological factor the use of local building materials in the regional architecture, the main objective of which is the ability to re-create in the form of the medium in its socio-functional device, the styles and ways of life that are typical of regional, ethnic and cultural traditions. The meaning of question of national originality of architecture and environment ethnocultural identity is explained.

Study of Architecture and Environment Design Based on the Fold Theory of Deleuze

Based on the smooth space thinking proposed by contemporary French philosopher Deleuze, this paper describes the ideas of architectural design from the mutual transition and conversion of buildings and environment, and the design of smooth space total three aspects, to provide the reference for future architectural design.

Architecture and Environment: St Benet's Holm and the Fashioning of the English Monastic Gatehouse

This article analyses the gatehouse of the wealthy Benedictine abbey of St Benet's Holm in Norfolk, one of the set-pieces of English monastic architectural patronage in the fourteenth century. The ruinous condition of this building, and its sequestered location, means that it has attracted little scholarly attention in the past, and the neglect has been exacerbated by the presence of a brick windmill-tower superimposed on its remains four centuries after the gatehouse was built. This forced marriage, at once preposterous and compelling in effect, has absorbed most of the attention paid to the site, and because what is left of the gatehouse's main façade is embedded within the mill-tower, and thus difficult to photograph, its artistic uniqueness and quality of execution have been concealed. There has hence been no serious attempt to investigate or contextualize it (Figs 1, 2).

Editorial

Open House International (OHI) has come a long way towards its recent accreditation as one of the leading academic journals in the field of Architecture and Environment. The journal has a focus on decision-making processes, which enable the various disciplines dealing with built environment to understand the dynamics of development and housing and so contribute more effectively to it.

China's Urban Architecture and Environmental Color Practicein in Ten Years

This paper analyzes the domestic's color practice of urban architecture and environmental in ten years, study the sources and flow of Chinese architecture and environment color practice, in order to seek the development path of urban architecture and environmental color in China.

Expression of “Vivid Inner Temperament” in the Contemporary Environmental Design

Currently, environment design tends to be more diversification; inheriting essence of national culture and improve the taste of architecture and environment has been become inevitable of development of era. Build " Vivid inner temperament" is one of principles of creation in the ancient Chinese art, now it should become one of the important methods of environmental design