Initial planning framework for the reconstruction of Mosul. Hassan Fathy’s concept of aesthetics in architecture. Le preesistenze ambientali e i temi pratici contemporanei. The Architectural Press and Concept Media. General Notes: All maps provided in maps.pdf, and in separate. Heinrichs (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edn. Physical Description: 1 computer disk (959 pages) : maps 4 3/4 in.
(1920) Archäologische Reise im Euphrat – und Tigris – Gebeit. An Ekistik Approach to the problem of roofing in Peasant House-Building. The architectural conservation in Mosul Old Town – Iraq. And this would have the purpose of enriching the elements to be taken into consideration in the process of defining an operational methodology capable of leading the practice of design towards more aware and responsible ways in dealing with the reconstruction process. As a result, we expect to rebuild a formal and settlement identity of the city of Mosul by combining its individual and peculiar ways of growth, both architectural and urban. Then, those processes identified at an urban level will be extended to a typological one, trying to identify possible relationships between buildings and urban form. And that is recognizable, for instance, in the settlement relationship with the Tigris river, and, in particular, in the construction of a monumental riverfront that often deforms the typical structure of the enclosure, otherwise persistent in the Islamic settlements.
Specifically, the aim of this research consists of detecting how the city of Mosul, although being a city of Islamic foundation-and thus displaying specific morphological and typological characteristics-has developed peculiar aspects affected by other cultural, religious, and geographical factors. The study here displayed evaluates the elements that compose the urban phenomenon as operational and proactive tools capable to suggest criteria for a critical reconstruction of the urban structure, to integrate a consolidate historical identity with a new architectural intervention. The city of Mosul dramatically represents a paradigmatic case where a condition of pervasive destruction of the built environment has moved the scientific research towards the investigation of possible precautionary strategies in safeguarding those structural characteristics that define the identity of the city.