Ahmed Yahia Enab <br/><br/>
A Study in the reconstruction of architectural elementsb /  
 دراسة فى إعادة إنشاء العناصر المعمارية 
Ahmed Yahia Enab ; Supervised Tarek Abdellatif Aboulatta , Sherief Ahmed Sheta 
 - Cairo :   Ahmed Yahia Enab ,   2013 
 - 141 P. :   photographs ;   30cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Architectural Engineering 
<br/><br/> Starting from a conceptual hypothesis which views an architectural style as an evolving dynamic system, similar to that of a biological species, the thesis tackles a fundamental question: Could a building type be comprehended the same way a biological organism is; in the sense of extracting its hereditary information - its genome? The reconstruction method is tested on sample case studies of buildings; the resemblance between the descriptive models and the actual buildings they represent should be the judge of both the decoding technique, and the conceptual hypothesis it is based upon 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Architectural styles Dynamic systems Genome