Kevin Nute, University of Oregon, USA.
Vernacular Architecture was called as populace architecture that formed because pattern of life, social, culture, and religious from certain society. This thing was caused program of vernacular architecture different in every place. All of vernacular architecture have special characteristic. Also, there is vernacular architecture of Minangkabau. Vernacular architecture of Minangkabau often call…
The perspective of Islamic arts proposed by Ismail Raji al Faruqi in his book Islamic Culture Atlas can be considered as a very comprehensive perspective of esthetics and arts based on Islamic worldview. Al Faruqi's perspective of Islamic arts includes various genres of arts, such as literature, calligraphy, ornamentation, interior design, and music. Therefore, al Faruqi's perspective is expect…
Masjid Besar Kauman Semarang which is simply called as Masjid Besar Kauman is an ancient mosque in Central Java which has various character istics: Javanese, Persian and Arabian. Considering the model of the roof, the mosque exposes its Javanese characteristics; even its triple overlapping roof with the mustaka on the top reminds us to the Masjid Agung Demak. On the other hand, looking at its g…
We develop a simple framework to represent whether a creative invocation of an agent is considered creative at all by a recipient or simply nonsensical, mad, or ridiculous. The framework is meant to be a mode of presentation, and its central ideas include and insight from philosophy of mind, psychologycal findings, analysis of analogical reasoning, and from simple logic common to artificial int…
Jabon Mekar village is well-known by people as the central og fruit producing at subdistrict of Parung. However it was estimated as a buffer zone of Jakarta and subject of the urban development. The aim of the research is to study the vegetation profile and the tree of model architecture at home-garden of community in the village of Jabon Mekar. The methods used for vegetation analysis were the…
Tree architectural model represents one of the important concepts to quip characteristic takson in plant morphology and plant taxonomic. Every tree grows at the watershed has a typical architectural model and different ability in rainfall transformation such as stemflow, throughfall, and interception. This resarch explores tree architectural models at upstream Cianjur watersheds inMt. Gede Pang…