Comments on: Context-sensitive design in the Middle East and the Arab countries https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/context-sensitive-design-in-the-middle-east-and-the-arab-countries/ Gardenvisit.com Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:38:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/context-sensitive-design-in-the-middle-east-and-the-arab-countries/#comment-2034 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:38:20 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=4187#comment-2034 Yes this is a problem. The process of learning often means realism precedes abstraction. Often while the lessons of the past are being absorbed by the student the fact that the student is learning about architecture/landscape is not recognised.

When contemporary architectural sources are used in the same way (ie. a student’s work resembles that of a contemporary design guru) this is less of a difficulty for design schools.

I am not sure what the answer to this problem is. (Perhaps closer questioning of the student’s interests and intentions expressed within the project?)

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/context-sensitive-design-in-the-middle-east-and-the-arab-countries/#comment-2033 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:33:08 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=4187#comment-2033 All good points. I had a friend who had done national service in Aden and who studied architecture in the 1960s. He tried to do what we now call context-sensitive design for his school projects – and they failed him for not trying to be contemporary. As he saw the tide turn over the next 40 years he became ever-crosser with his former tutors at Edinburgh College of Art.

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/context-sensitive-design-in-the-middle-east-and-the-arab-countries/#comment-2032 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:28:57 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=4187#comment-2032 Comment from Christine: Well I suppose one answer is that the architectural and landscape design is more contextually sensitive than it would be if it were located at Las Vegas in the Nervada desert. [ http://www.bugbog.com/gallery/usa_pictures/las_vegas_pictures/las_vegas_pictures.html ]

The Madinat Jumeriah Hotel in Dubai 1 and 2) belongs aesthetically to the tradition of Middle Eastern architecture and landscape. 3) Is obviously a modern re-presentation of that tradition

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