Writing : MMV

Research and Bibliography 2016 — 2018

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Master's Thesis
∙ (scholarly essay) Traversing The Barzakh: An Exploration of the Metaphysical Notions of the Islamic Ritual Prayer and its Phenomenological Manifestations
∙ (fiction) The Humiliation of Mimar of Metholassia in 7 Acts
∙ (prose) Meditations at Sancaklar Camii

Seminar Presentations — Architectural History & Theory: Phenemenology, Cognitive Science & Hermeneutics
∙ Plato, Timaeus
∙ Kockelmans J., Phenomenology. The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl
∙ Crossley, N., The Social Body
∙ Abrams D., The Spell of the Sensusous
∙ Kearney R., The Wake of Imagination and Poetics of Imagining
∙ Steiner G., After Babel

Seminar Presentations — Architectural History & Theory: Western Architectural Theory from Antiquity to Modernity
∙ Cusano N., De Visione Dei (On the Vision of God)
∙ Dezallier d’Argenville, A., La théorie et la pratique du jardinage (The Theory and Practice of Gardening)
∙ Memmo A., Elementi d'Architettura Lodoliana Ossia l'Arte del Fabricare con Solidità Scientifica e con Eleganza non Capricciosa (The Architectural Elements of Lodoli)

Criticial Design Strategies: Architecture and the Political
∙ (paper) On Local Histories: The Introduction of Islam in North America
∙ (prose) Intersections between Islamic philosophy and architecture

Architectural Intentions from Vitruvius to the Renaissance
∙ (book review) Frances A. Yates, The Art of Memory
∙ (book review) John Dee, The Mathematicall Praeface to the Elements of Geometrie of Euclid Megara (1570)
∙ (fiction) The Notebook of Architect: A Condensed History of Architecture