مختارات من عمارة العالم العربي 1914-2014 (ص 12)

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مختارات من عمارة العالم العربي 1914-2014 (ص 12)

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Questions that will not go away
Traditionally, architecture has been the primary means of expression
and communication of ideas, values, and beliefs in Arabian culture.
The question that now presents itself in the context of post-oil archi-
tecture is whether architecture in the Arabian Peninsula region
actually represents the collective mind of the culture in which it
exists. One answer would be that with the “scapes” of flows there
is no one collective mind that can be conceptually utilized to general-
ize or to build upon; rather there is plurality and multiplicity. In the
Arabian Peninsula, architecture at the beginning of the twenty-first
century requires a more thorough study and development of its capacity
for symbolic representation, if it is to sustain itself as a form of human
expression used to characterize the physical environment of the past.
With this understanding, many of the projects and the emerging place
typologies, while undoubtedly successful in responding to global
flows of the present era, raise many questions. These include the
following: what are the sustainable qualities that should be associ-
ated with international ideas on entering the host culture especially
those pertaining to social practices? What are the socio-cultural
and socio-behavioral impacts those ideas have on the locale and
how can their negative effects, if they exist, be reduced or hopefully
eliminated? What will be the running cost of embracing such inter-
national ideas and how will they affect the everyday activities of the
average citizen? Can there be a position within socio-global aspira-
tions for traditional ideas that are still relevant to today’s culture
in this region? While these questions deserve continuous in-depth
analysis and investigation, it appears that they are not yet integral
to contemporary cultural discourse, nor realized in future practices.
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