| publication name | Lost / Displaced Architecture |
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| Authors | Wagih F. Youssef |
| year | 2015 |
| keywords | architectural style, displaced architecture, ethnocentricity, change and diversity. |
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| volume | Not Available |
| issue | Not Available |
| pages | Not Available |
| publisher | Not Available |
| Local/International | International |
| Paper Link | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275971767_Lost__Displaced_Architecture |
| Full paper | download |
| Supplementary materials | Not Available |
Abstract
This essay argues that an architecture that merely focuses on style, individual or historic, needs to redirect the focus to a contextual architecture that is sensitized to social, cultural and economic needs. Importantly, such a shift in focus may not be evident nor easy to maintain given that architecture is constituted of several dilemmas: a dilemma of style, a dilemma of ethnocentricity, a dilemma of non-linearity, a dilemma of change, and a dilemma of diversity.