Salah Eldin Hassan Zikri <br/><br/>
Decoding multi-layers of meanings in contemporary architecture :   Towards a comprehensive model of meaning communication through the built-environment local cultural buidlings as case studies /  
 تأويل المستويات المتعددة للمعني في العمارة المعاصرة :   نحو نموذج متكامل لتوصيل المعني عبر البيئة المشيدة 
Salah Eldin Hassan Zikri ; Supervised Hisham Sherif Gabr , Aly Hatem Gabr 
 - Cairo :   Salah Eldin Hassan Zikri ,   2011 
 - 246 , [300] P. :   charts , plans ;   30cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Architectural Engineering 
<br/><br/> Meanings in architecture are all messages conveyed by the built environment to its audience, whether intentionally encoded by the designer or not, these messages vary from messages related to functional issues to more complex ones related to social and philosophical aspects. The study will attempt to understand to what extent, how and why a selected contemporary local cultural building (case study) can simultaneously convey multiple and different layers of meanings to a selected range of different correspondent users types under different interaction condition, as well as the degree of congruence among those meanings and the original intentions of the architects 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Decoding Encoding  Meaning