Architectural Mimetism Between Heritage and Technological Advancement

摘要

The rapid technological progress, media and marketing of urban development has affected the features of contemporary Arab architecture in general and Iraq in particular, in terms of designing either regarding to the local identity or regardless to it, so this research tends to study and analyze a group of architects who constantly work on local projects in Iraq to mimic those who do it in harmony with the local identity, and those who work on globalized basis preparing their designs of modern technological references without taking into account the local identity, neglecting the spirit of heritage and the possibility of making an mimetism between heritage and modernism, to produce high-tech designs, performance forms and attributes that bear the spirit of heritage and mimics the identity of humans making it the highest value in design as humans are the user of this new urban environment. This research focuses on the certain definition of the term mimetism and the mechanism used to apply it in terms of architectural design thoroughly then drawn conclusions from the practical study to illustrate what have been learned through carrying out the study and analysis of those projects along with general conclusions for the research as a whole.