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ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FRAGMENTS AS CATALYST FOR MEANING TRANSFORMATION: CASE OF THE TRADITIONAL CENTER OF BAGHDAD |
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| Creator | Saba Sami Al-Ali, Nawar Sami Al-Ali |
| Title | ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FRAGMENTS AS CATALYST FOR MEANING TRANSFORMATION: CASE OF THE TRADITIONAL CENTER OF BAGHDAD |
| Contributor | - |
| Publisher | TuEngr Group |
| Publication Year | 2563 |
| Journal Title | International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies |
| Journal Vol. | 11 |
| Journal No. | 12 |
| Page no. | 11A12R: 1-14 |
| Keyword | Historic Architecture, Heritage mosque conservation, Architecture semiotics, Mosque significations, Suq el Ghazl, Mosque type, Mohamad Makya, Mosque architecture. |
| URL Website | http://TuEngr.com/Vol11_12.html |
| Website title | ITJEMAST V11A(12) 2020 @ TuEngr.com |
| ISSN | 2228-9860 |
| Abstract | Several studies on the architecture of mosques tend to raise two inter-connected aspects: form and meaning, a correlation that had shaped, throughout time, the characteristics of the architectural type of the mosque. This study sheds light on a distinct approach towards this relationship, through a framework of heritage conservation and urban renewal. It analyzes the Khulafaa Mosque (1961) in the historic center of Baghdad by the Iraqi architect Mohamed Makiya who incorporated into his design the 12th-century minaret of Suq el Ghazl, the only fragment left from the medieval Abbasid mosque that once stood there. The study adopts a structuralist-semantic approach to reveal the transformation of meanings in this mosque on two levels. The first level is the denoted meaning of modern technology achieved through disarticulating the compositional relations of elements. The second level is the connoted implicit meanings of belonging connected to the historical fragment, the minaret, realized through reconfiguring the mosque's typological relations. This study considers such potentials of meanings' transformation in inspiring other attempts at activating historical fragments for sizeable urban renewal projects. |
