TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ahmed Yahia Enab
AU  - Sherief Ahmed Sheta , 
AU  - Tarek Abdellatif Aboulatta , 
TI  - A Study in the reconstruction of architectural elementsb / 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cairo : 
PB  - Ahmed Yahia Enab , 
KW  - Architectural styles
KW  - Dynamic systems
KW  - Genome
N1  - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Architectural Engineering; Issued also as CD
N2  - 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
ER  -