An architecture for learning
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The article describes the author's experience of designing the Mahindra United World College of India for 200 residential students, 25 faculty and 30 support staff. The goal of integrating Western and Eastern value systems and the need to impart a value-based education grounded in constructive humanism are discussed.
Publication Name: EKISTICS: the problems and science of HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0013-2942
Year: 1998
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Architecture in a changing world: the new rhetoric of form
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Architecture can serve symbolic functions, especially in the cases of Postmodern and deconstructive styles that appeared toward the end of the 20th century. If the ultimate purpose of human thought is to create order, postmodernism attempts to transcend this order through fragmentation and ambiguity.
Publication Name: EKISTICS: the problems and science of HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0013-2942
Year: 1998
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Applying morphological analysis to a semi-squatter settlement in Istanbul
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This article explores the development of housing for rural emigrants who own land in the squatter settlement on the European side of Istanbul. The progression began with simple, one-room, poorly built dwellings and finished with multi-story apartment blocks.
Publication Name: EKISTICS: the problems and science of HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0013-2942
Year: 1998
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