The IASTE Working Paper Series is a compilation of selected papers from each IASTE conference. Three to five papers are grouped into one thematic volume. Volumes can be ordered individually or as a conference set. To order any volume, click here.
2025 Volumes 341-355
Vol 341 ARCHITECTURE, MEDIA, REPRESENTATION, AND COSMOPOLITANISM
1- India In-Between Architectural Identities: Vidhana Soudha Versus the New Secretariat Building
Anjana Vasant Biradar, Pithamber Rao Polsani
2- On Cosmopolitan Space: The Televised Architecture of the Portuguese Pavilion at Expo ’92
Alexandra Areia
3- Cosmopolitanism and the Notion of Belonging: António Menére and the Photographic Connection
Larissa Ribeiro Cunha, Luís Martinho Urbano
4- Bastides’ Regularity: Archaeology of a High-Modernist Myth
Vincent Peu Duvallon
5- Fernando Távora’s Independent and Universal Approach to Urban Design: The Urban Project for Guimarães
Fernanda Vierno de Moura
Vol 342 BRANDING, IDENTITY, AND SPATIAL NARRATIVES
1- Timeless Transformations: Restoring History and Memory Through Cosmopolitan Design in Beirut, Thessaloniki, and Alexandria
Andrea Moneta, Maurizio Crocco
2- Retrofitting Strategies for Energy Efficient Commercial Buildings: Promoting Cosmopolitan Identity in Downtown Alexandria
Sarah Essam, Mohamed Assem Hanafi, Wessam Abbas
3- Finding Their Voices: Design of Mosques in an American Metropolis
Arief B. Setiawan
4- The Return of The Village in the Age of Aquarius
Laurence Keith Loftin III, Jacqueline G. Victor
Vol 343 COLONIAL BUILDING CULTURES AND LABOR
1- On What Material Do You Want It to be Made…? Negotiations and Colonial Building Sites in African Territories Under Late Portuguese Rule
Ana Vaz Milheiro
2- Mining Labor, Housing, and Building Sites Across Central Africa
Beatriz Serrazina
3- ‘From Pen to Stone’: Nawab Shajahan Begum’s (1868-1901)
Princely Cosmopolitanism in the City of Bhopal in Colonia Lindia
Saniya Siddiqui, Jyoti Pandey Sharma
4- Nation-Building with Climate Resilience: A Case of Kamalapur Railway Station
Mohona Tahsin Reza
Vol 344 CONTEMPORARY COSMOPOLITAN STRATEGIES
1-Mapping the Heterotopias of Bengaluru: The Cosmopolitan of the Other
Priya Joseph
2-Beyond the Evental (I): Urban Art Installations and Social Participation at Dubai Design Week 2023
Jasmine Shahin
3-Reimagining Jinan’s Spring-Centered Communities: Cosmopolitanism, Governance, and Cultural Resilience
Shi Tao, Zhang Yali
4-Unbounded but Binding: An Advanced Community-Space-Event Pattern Transforming Histories into Civic Society Essentials
An-Yu Cheng, Ping-Sheng Wu
Vol 345 COSMOPOLITAN URBAN LEGACIES
1- ‘Oh, East Is East and West Is West, And (…) The Twain (Can) Meet’: Two Dilliwallahs (Residents of Delhi), Two Cosmopolitanisms in Nineteenth-Century Delhi
Jyoti Pandey Sharma
2-The Influence of the Silk Road on Cosmopolitan Architecture in Iran: Ilkhanid Period (1256-1335)
Parnian Rahbar
3- Cosmopolitanism & Tradition in Baltimore City
Annamaria Borvice
4- Reclaiming Alexandria’s Cosmopolitan Traditions: Navigating the Tension Between Provincialism and Urban Heritage
Nabil Mohareb
Vol 346 COSMOPOLITAN WATERFRONTS AND MARITIME LEGACIES
1- Coastal Cosmopolitan Traditions of Maritime Settlers in Pre- Modern Malabar Coast – A Curious Case of Mappila Mosques of Kozhikode
Shanmugapriya Balsubramaninan, Kavitha Vembupillai Subramanian
2- Water Heritage and Colonial Legacies: A Study of British Water Supply Systems in Hong Kong Island Its Cosmopolitan Narratives
Limiao Huang
3- Opening Up the Gable Wall: Reinterpreting Place-Identity and Publicising Ruined Village Grounds for the Rural Cosmopolitan in a Coastal Hakka Village
Jimmy Tsz-wai Ho, Ming Fai Mang, Thomas Chung
4- “Seascape” Through Urbanization — A Case Study of the Floating Community in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Miriam Lee
Vol 347 COSMOPOLITANISM AT THE MARGINS
1- Domesticity at the Storefront: Notes on the Impurities of “Eva” Houses
João Almeida e Silva
2- ‘Cosmopolitan Tradition’ or Counter Narrative’: The Architectural Culture of the ‘Malays’ in Cocos/ Keeling Island, Australia
Md Mizanur Rashid
3- Glocalization of Contemporary Restoration Practices in Singapore: Transnational Efforts at Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery
Xiang Xing
4- Cosmopolitanism in Urban Spaces: The Case of Kuzguncuk and Its Hybrid Historic Environment in Istanbul
Huriye Arma?an Do?an Stewart, Omid Ebrahimbaysalami, Xiang Ren
Vol 348 COSMOPOLITANISM, EDUCATIONAL, AND CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURES
1- Folk Museum: The Heritagization of Traditional Dwellings in Hong Kong, 1976-1997
Yin-Tong Chen, Chang-Xue Shu
2- Towards Social Cosmopolitanism: Wayfinding in an Inclusive Educational Environment for Children with Autism in South Australian Primary Schools
Farjana Rahaman, Md Mizanur Rashid, Katharine Bartsch
3- Reimagining Museums: Decolonial 3- Praxis in the Casa Grande del Pumarejo in Spain
Caroline Ramos dos Santos
Vol 349 ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE RESPONSIVE URBANISM
1- The Effect of Urban Street Canyons on the Outdoor Microclimate in Dense Mediterranean Cities
Nermine Aly Hany
2- Retrofitting Strategies for Energy Efficient Commercial Buildings: Promoting Cosmopolitan Identity in Downtown Alexandria
Sarah Essam, Mohamed Assem Hanafi, Wessam Abbas
3- The Influence of Open Spaces on the Quality of Life and the Users’ Perception of the City: The Case of Waterfront Development of Jazan Corniche, Saudi Arabia
Muna G.M. Ahmed
4- Traditions of Rainwater Harvesting and Cosmopolitanism: The Case of Jaipur (Rajasthan, India)
Savitri Jalais
Vol 350 REGIONAL COSMOPOLITANISM AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH
1- Breaking Traditional Molds: Cosmopolitanism of the Hindu Temples in Goa, India
Nirmal Kulkarni, Parul Kiri Roy
2-Crafts and the Landscape of Cultural Tourism at Santiniketan, India
Amita Sinha, Deepanjan Saha, Tanima Bhattacharya
3- Tiruvannamalai: Harmonizing Ancient Traditions and Contemporary Challenges
Fátima Barahona da Fonseca
4- Ways of Being and Making Landscape: The Favelas in Rio De Janeiro’s Cityscape
Mônica Bahia Schlee
Vol 351 RETHINKING HERITAGE AND IDENTITY
1- Hearth Is One of the DNAs of the Nusantara Dwellings
Pancawati Dewi, Dhini Dewiyanti
2- Blueprinting the Visual Urban Identity of Historic Egyptian Metropolises: A Documentation-Based Process for Architectural Analysis in Damanhur City, El-Behira, Egypt
Heba Jahin, Ayman el- Zamarani, Rania Rasla
3- Decoding Historical Jeddah: Patterns and Principles for Interpretation
Khalid S.M. Al-Hagla, Manar Talaleldin Mohammed, Lara A. Awad
4- A Passion for Building By-Laws: Characteristics and Opportunities of Cosmopolitan Self-Built Space as a Sustainable Tradition
Susane Havelka, Hans-Peter Mønsted
Vol 352 TECHNOLOGY, RISK, AND HERITAGE PRESERVATION
1- Virtual Rebirth of An Urban Heritage: The Case of the Wukang Mansion LBVR Project in Shanghai
Jiahao Yan, Huaqing Huang
2- Risk Management Strategies for Cultural Heritage in Libya: Insights from Ghadames City
Fatma Seila, Gehan Selim, May Newisar
3- Making In-Between: Reconstructing Culture Through Residual Urban Spaces
Peter W. Ferretto, Sze Wai Veera Fung
4- Understanding the Relationship Between Funding Organizations and Heritage Management
May El Tabbakh
Vol 353 TRADITION, VERNACULAR, AND THE EVERYDAY
1-The House is a Stage: Functional Dynamism of Traditional Toba Batak Houses from Acoustic Assessments
Jonathan Yoas, Irma Subagio
2-Reinvigorating Urban Foodscapes: Culinary Tourism as A Strategy for Urban Regeneration
Qingli Lin, Gehan Selim
3-Modern Day Colonization Through the Lens of Architecture Leading to a Missed Educational Opportunity in the Mist of the Sixth Extinction
Mennaallah Abotaleb
4-Representing Cosmopolitanism: Food Markets in Guangzhou and China’s Late Socialism in the 1980s
Xinhui Chen
Vol 354 URBAN HYBRIDITY AND GLOBAL-LOCAL EXCHANGES
1- Cosmopolitanism In the Chinese Village: A Transnational Story of the Jiang Family and Their Ancestral Houses in Xiamen
Ruoqi Yu
2- Architectural Exoticism Through the Others’ Places: Chinatowns in the US and European Towns in China
Xiao Hu
3- Branding The Districts of Cosmopolitan Cairo: Exploring the Role of Districts in Branding Multicultural Cities
Salma Ghanem, Sherif El-Fiki, Marwa Khalifa, Samy Afifi
4- Cosmopolitan Tradition Versus Ideology: A Concrete Montage by Pearl River
Yuqing Wang
Vol 355 URBAN MORPHOLOGIES AND CULTURAL MEMORY
1- The Indigenous Resistance of Interstitial Spaces: People, Buildings, And Streets in Shanghai’s Urban History
Hao Wang
2- Inside And Outside the City Wall: Acceptance, Resistance, and Compromise of Modernity in Shanghai’s Chinese City in the Early Twentieth Century
Huichao Luo
3- Habitat Reconfigurations in Urban Villages: Self-Care Responses to Cosmopolitan Burnout
Goran Ivo Marinovic
4- The Influence of the Japanese System on Traditional Korean Architecture in the Early 20th Century and the Definition of Early Modern Han-Ok
Yura Kim
2024 Volumes 326-340
- Colonial Echoes: Investigating The Lingering Effects of The German Empire in Africa on Hamburg’s Built Environment
Bedour Braker - The Use of Biomimicry in The Restoration of Heritage Buildings: The Cracks of Al-Byaddiah Palace as Case Study
Layan Husni Rayes - Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Dwelling in Persian Architecture: A Critical Review of Components of Culture, Interrelations, And Layers
Fatemeh Fallah Tafti, MD Mizanur Rashid, Sanja Rodeš - Al-Faqir Fort Preservation: Analyzing and Documenting with Image-Based and Uav Photogrammetry 3D Reconstruction Data – A Case Study of Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia
Wajdi Ali Atwah - The Influence of Traditional Architecture on Modern Architectural Heritage of Iran
Parnian Rahbar, Omid Ebrahimbaysalami
- The Vernacular Production of Doha Courtyard Houses: From Qatari Families to Migrant Workers
Gizem Kahraman - Design Elements of Building Comfort in the Arid Zone Climate of Arabian Countries: The Significant Role of Orientation and Courtyard Layout
Falah AlKubaisy - The Typology of Courtyard Space in Najdi Architecture, Saudi Arabia: A Response to Human Needs, Culture, and the Environment
Mohammed Mashary Alnaim - The Influences of Ethnicity in Contemporary Row Housing: An Investigation on the Meaning of Home in the Malaysian Setting
Erna Nuralia Zharani, Gehan Selim
- Sustainable Preservation of Urban Heritage
Silvia Mazzetto - Cultural Routes as a Tool for Interpreting Cultural Heritage Value: A Spatial Analytical Approach
Gehad A. Mohamed - The Barredo Urban Renewal Study in Oporto and Fernando Távora’s Approach to Urban Heritage in the Late 1960s
Fernanda Vierno Moura - Heritage And Tradition, Between Preservation and Nostalgia, and Meeting Present Day Needs, Comforts and Aesthetic Preferences
Afaf Ali Badran - Salaam Neighbors! Investigations of Social Cohesion of Afghan Refugees in Sacramento, CA
Pamanee Chaiwat
Vol 229 VERNACULAR HERITAGE IN HONG KONG
- Dynamics Of Rural Village Regeneration: A Case Study of Bottom-Up Initiatives in a Coastal Community in Hong Kong
Jimmy T.W. Ho, Thomas W.L. Chung - Politics of Caretaking — Rehabilitating a Mountain Hut and Its Contested Interests
Miriam M. T. Lee, Thomas W. L. Chung - Dilemma Between Conservation and Development: Difficulties and Challenges of Initiating Conservation Attempts on a Privately-Owned Agricultural Heritage
Sidney C. H. Cheung, Alex W. H. Wong
- Architecture Transformation in Indonesia in the Past Decade
Athina Ardhyanto, Feni Kurniati - Modernization From Below: Typological Continuities in the Wenruitang Valley, China, During the Reform and Opening-UpVincent Peu Duvallon, Rongrong Hu, Miao Zhang
- The Dynamics of the Role of Hearth in Residential Houses in Indonesia
Pancawati Dewi - The Owner, the Priest, and the Carpenters’ Role in Shaping the Persistence and Change of Belief System’s Architectural Expressions in Balinese Urban Vernacular House
Dimas Hartawan Wicaksono, Feni Kurniati - Tradition at a Juncture of Globalization: A Literature Study on Adaptability of Vernacular Architecture
Feni Kurniati, Dimas Hartawan Wicaksono
Vol 331CITIES IN TRANSFORMATION
- From Balloons to Machine Learning: Geospatial Technology and the Shaping of Gulf Cities
Yousef Awaad Hussein - Imaginaries of Surf and Tattoos: The Political Ecology of Art in Costa Rica
Manar Zaki - Investigating the “Altera Forma Urbis”, the Secret Structural Urban Form of Ancient Rome, By Applying a Sustainable Innovative Architectural Design Methodology for the Challenges of the Contemporary Built Environment
Maurizio Crocco, Andrea Moneta - Transformation of a Historical Town and the Dynamics of Traditional Identity: The Case of Algiers, Algeria
Manalee Nanavati
- Cairo Between Representations of Authority and Society
Moaaz Lafi - Advocacy and the Power of Social Media in Egypt`S Urban Context: Urban Struggles Versus State Tradition
Amr Essam - Disrupting Auto-Centric Planning Traditions: Gentrification and Perspectives on Children’s Active Mobility in the American South
Lyndsey Deaton, Zahra Ghazanfari - Unpacking the Key Drivers of Shaping the Spontaneous Areas in Makkah Case Study: Al- Khalidiyah District
Oumr Adnan Osra
- Retrofitting Scenarios Proposals for Net-Zero Energy Neighborhoods in the Mediterranean Climate: A Case Study of a Residential Compound in Alexandria, Egypt
Nermine Aly Hany - Evaluation of the “Visitor Experience” at Saudi Arabian Cultural Heritage Sites – Case Study: The Diriyah Museum in the Historic District of Tarif
Manar Bint Abdulaziz AlYabis, Mohammed Bin Saeed Al-Aisan Al-Ghamdi - Lighting Silhouettes as an Element in Vernacular Architecture: Inspirations for Contemporary Design
Sima Tawakoli - Learning From Tradition in the Face of Globalization: A Comparative Study of Vernacular and Modern Housing in the Oases of Tunisia and Saudi Arabia
Majdi Faleh, Shams Alshamasi
Vol 334 ARCHITECTS AND BUILDING
- In Search for In-Betweenness: Problematising the Mundane of 20th Century Macanese Modern Architecture
Luk Ying Xian (Cassandra) - Traditions: Merge Between East and West
M Alaa Mandour, Sara Abdel Rahman - Modern Architectural Heritage of Iran: Learning from What Is Learned
Omid Ebrahimbaysalami - Minnette De Silva (Re)Inventing the Tradition of the Ceylonese Arts and Crafts – A Guide to Trace the Dynamics of These Cultural Practices in Contemporary Sri Lanka
Inês Leonor Nunes - Exploring the Lost Sense of Place- Investigating the Interplay of Architectural Typology, Materiality, and Authenticity
Mustapha El Moussaoui
Vol 335 PLANNING AND HOUSING COMMUNITIES
- Remaking China’s Urban Communities for Modernity: The Morphological Transformations and Everyday Activities of Danwei Compounds in Xi’an
Xiao Hu, Jing Hu, Ying Shen - How Did Public Rental Housing Contribute to the Family Lives of Chinese Rural Migrants? A Case of Chongqing
Weijie Hu - Between Traditional and Contemporary Architecture – Understanding the New Typology of Assam’s Architecture
Farha Shermin - The Compound: Gated Communities as a New Housing and Planning Tradition in Cairo
Doaa AlAmir
Vol 336 RITUALS AND SPIRITUALS
- Dynamics of Homecoming: Socio-Spatial Practices Defining Hindu Religious Geographies from Marcel, Goa, India
Nirmal Kulkarni - Temples on the Rooftop: Practicing Ritual Alliance Tradition in Highrise Residences in Putian, China
Jie Li, Jing Zheng - To ‘See’ and to be ‘Seen’: Deconstructing the Many Layers of the Indian Subcontinent’s Darshan Ritual
Jyoti Pandey Sharma
- Modern Sustainable Restoration and Rehabilitation of Historic Buildings: Insights from Egypt
Ayman Khalil, Sandra Zaffarese, Mohamed W. Fareed - Maintaining Cultural Heritage Through Adaptive Reuse: The Case of Al-Mughesla in Al-Mainah Al-Munawarah
Faredah Mohsen Al-Murahhem, Bushra Jamal Khalifa - Digital Framework of Renovation of Traditional Buildings in Saudi Arabia
Abdulrahman Alymani, Hashem Alhumayani, Ammar Alammar - The Impact of Artifical Intelligence (Ai) on Architectural Design, Identity, and Culture Making in Kuwait and the Gulf
Yousef Al-Haroun
Vol 338 URBAN DESIGN AND PLANNING
- The Impact of Military Immigration Activities in the Ming and Qing Dynasties on the Human Land Relations and Urban Construction of Historical Towns Along the Xian-Qian-Dian Post Road: A Case Study of Zhenyuan Ancient Town
Zhao Yue, Zhou Ling - Narratives of a Sacred Mountain. Arunachala, Tamil Nadu, South of India
Fátima Barahona da Fonseca - The Impact of Crowd Management Approaches on Crowd Behavior and Experience During Mega-Events: A Case Study of Hajj
Abdulrahman Kadi - The Dynamic Tradition of a Modern Exogenous Urban Model: Case of Housing Urbanization in Iran 1945-1979
Rana Habibi - Mapping Morphological Manifestations and the Impacts of the Occupation on the Continuity of Traditions in Gaza’s Urban Landscapes
Xiao Hu, Hala Barakat, Hala Zahalqa
- What is Ours: Traces of Foreign Culture Seen in Traditional Architecture Built in the Early 20th Century
Yura Kim - Privacy and Poche at Monticello
Laurence K. Loftin III, Jacqueline G. Victor - The Impact of Cultural Dynamism and Traditions on the Evolution of Contemporary Urban Housing Typologies in Jazan Region, Saudi Arabia
Muna GM Ahmed
Vol 340 MODERNITY, VERNACULAR AND VIRTUALITY
- Defining Domestic Boundaries in a Globalised Era: A Case Study of Barpak, a Himalayan Village of Nepal
Abhishek Bhutoria - Ashuusar: A Mentally Resilient Community in the North of Pakistan
Noshaba Shah - Reinventing Traditional Informality: Exploring the Hybrid Space of Al-Harazat in Jeddah’s Informal Housing
Abdulla Difalla - Back to the Future: Upscaling the Heritage Toward Sustainable Smart Cities
Anna Laura Petrucci - An Initiation on the Cultural Resilience of Historical Built Environment: An Academia-Ngo-Government Approach
Cheng An-Yu, Wu Ping-Sheng, Yen Shih-Hua
2022 Volumes 316-325: RUPTURE AND TRADITION
Volume 315: URBAN RUPTURES
Volume 316: DISRUPTION, THEORY, AND DISCOURSES
Volume 317:TRADITION AND CONTINUITY
Volume 318: HISTORY AND TRADITION
Volume 319:CITIES, VILLAGES, AND TRADITION
Volume 320: CITIES, URBAN, AND RECONSTRUCTION
Volume 321: HERITAGE AND TRADITION
Volume 322: DESIGN AND TRADITION
Volume 323: HOUSING AND TRADITION
Volume 324:HERITAGE DISCOURSES
Volume 325:POLITICS OF TRADITION
2020 Volumes 307-314: VIRTUAL TRADITIONS
Volume 307: VIRTUAL RECONSTRUCTIONS AND DIGITAL TOOLS
Volume 308: DISPLAYING TRADITION
Volume 309: TRANSFORMATION OF TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS AND SETTLEMENTS
Volume 310: VERNACULAR TRANSFORMING AND DEVELOPMENTS OF TRADITION
Volume 311: THE PRACTICES OF DESIGN
Volume 312: PLANNING AND PLACEMAKING
Volume 313: INFORMAL URBANISM AND REFUGEES SETTLEMENT
Volume 314: ART, CRAFT, AND ARCHITECTURE