Pluralism in Architecture

Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, IraqFollow

Keywords

Pluralism

Document Type

Original Study

Abstract

When studying the concepts that form architecture through analyzing its results along the time, the tension of intellect between the spiritual and intellectual aspects arises.The human civilizations through the history was always attempting to alien between the spiritual and metaphysical research , and the pure scientific research considering the first as studying the mysterious pheno nena , while science deals with what is researchable subject to analysis which provides a concrete base for discussion as it offers clear facts that could be experimented and tested , because science demands from human beings to deal with the universe and the facts of life and death rationally , whereas life proves everyday that not all the genuine are realistic , and the interpretation stays the frame structure through whi2h we look at facts of life in the process of searching for the variable in the invariable , and for all invariable in the variables .The research includes an attempt to clarify the concept of monism and pluralism in the human intellect and the concept of pluralism in the architectural work. The research has reached to explain the concept of pluralism in architecture.