Open House International: Volume 38 Issue 2

Editorial

Nicholas Wilkinson

Open House International (OHI) has come a long way towards its recent accreditation as one of the leading academic journals in the field of Architecture and Environment. The…

Circulation and Open Space in Affordable Townhouse Communities

Avi Friedman

Contemporary environmental and economic factors make the construction of narrow-front townhouses a continuous attraction. As affordability is a primary concern for many…

A Typo-Morphological Study: The Cmc Industrial Mass Housing District, Lefke, Northern Cyprus

Nevter Zafer Cömert, Sebnem Önal Hoskara

With the increasing number of universities in the country, research on urban form and architecture—with a focus on historic settlements—has accelerated in Cyprus in the last…

Lessons from Vietnamese Urban Street Houses for Contemporary High-Rise Housing

Le Thi Hong Na, Jin-Ho Park, Minjung Cho

Accounting for seventy five percent of urban housing in Vietnam, street houses refer to a mixed-use housing typology that emerged in the 17th century. Such housing has evolved in…

Translating Memories: Reshaping Spatial Patterns on Ephemeral Urban Dwelling

Jaime E. Gómez M.

Vernacular transformations of underused places give shape to Ephemeral Urban Dwellings (EUD). By reading the spatial patterns of use of three of these buildings, this paper…

A Proposal for the Future of Vernacular Architecture Studies

James Davidson

Given the broad scale and fundamental transformations occurring to both the natural environment and human condition in the present era, what does the future hold for vernacular…

Evaluating Indicators for Renewal of Properties via Gentrification in Budapest

Lívia Róka-Madarász, Levente Mályusz

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the factors of gentrification based on the economical social and architectural framework in the field of maintenance management of real…

Symbolic Use of Wind-Catchers in Iran

Rafooneh Mokhtarshahi Sani, Payam Mahasti Shotorbani

In recent decades, Iranian vernacular architecture has defined the local architectural identity by demonstrating distinctive characteristics. Defining such a critical role for…

Redefining Vernacular: The Lebanese Diaspora Eclecticism

Stephanie Dadour

Unlike postwar reconstruction of urban districts, the architectural projects developed during the Lebanese war are a relatively unexplored subject, moreover if one is dealing…

State Mass Housing Scheme for the Low-Income Group in Abuja

Bawa Chafe Abdullah, Wan Nor Azriyati Wan Abd Aziz

In 2000, Federal Ministry of the Federal Capital Territory (MFCT), Abuja launched a mass housing scheme (MHS) under the platform of a public-private partnership (PPP). This paper…

Book Review

Yonca Hürol

CLIMATE CHANGE ETHICS – Navigating the Perfect Moral Storm