This research doesn’t want to offer defined and systematic contributions; it isn’t a cataloguing or an historico-critical analysis of the “caravanserais” phenomenon. The aim consists in the effort to explain the relationship ...

This contribution, part of an in progress PhD study on forms and design of architecture and landscape of the central Indian Mandu plateau, focuses on a bird eye view of the human structures getting the landscape of the XV ...

The contribution is based on an architecture analysis , which took place through a series of campaigns of relief carried out during 2013 throughout the urban fabric of the old city of Taranto. This analysis interest ...

The spread of the Ottoman house takes place during the decline of the Ottoman Empire, strongly subjugated by Western influence. This means long cohesion of local types with Ottoman until the total sharing and housing culture ...

This paper traces some European receptions of the typology of housing generally referred to as Ottoman or Turkish. It discusses the regional developments in the Balkans, with a focus on Albania, and particularly the examples ...

Water is a fundamental element for Islamic culture and the need to purify themselves before the prayer and religious celebrations is made in special baths - near mosques - called hammam. The hammam is usually a large public ...

The old town of Bar in Montenegro, a Byzantine settlement rebuilt on the remains of a more ancient town destroyed in the 3rd century during the Roman invasion of Dalmatia, ruled between 1443 and 1571 from the city of Venice ...

The aim of this paper is to set light to relationship between the city and traditional house via the concept of ‘change’. In this direction, the main issue of this paper to discuss the reflections of change which lived ...

All kinds of qualitative and quantitative products, which are designed and created by people during historical periods, provide production of urban history and city’s character. People, who live in together in the same ...

Chronologically, the history of hospital facilities in Kosovo began at last decade of XIX and early years of XX century, followed by supplements, intervention and reconstruction through years. Actually, general hospitals ...