The Approach Of Contextualism

In “Scripture: Nourished by the Word (Catholic Basics: A Pastoral Ministry Series)” Ralph (2001) emphasises the importance of a contextualist approach when reading scripture. Firstly, this essay will discuss Ralph’s statement and outline the difference between a fundamental and contextual approach towards reading the Bible. Secondly, these different approaches will be demonstrated on three different examples: the Genesis’ creation accounts, the stories of miracles in the Gospel writings, and Jesus’ words towards his mother Mary just before his crucifixion. Finally, a conclusion is drawn on how a contextualist approach assists in gaining a better understanding of God.

This manifesto proposes an approach to sustainable design that I am interested in exploring during my time studying architecture. The idea of sustainability is a complex one, not without apparent contradictions. This makes it difficult to define in a wholly satisfactory manner. For the purposes of this manifesto I will advert to the definition proposed by Jason McLennan who asserts that sustainable design: “seeks to maximize the quality of the built environment, while minimizing or eliminating negative impact to the natural environment.” I find this definition particularly useful in the emphasis which it places on quality. By quality, in this

The book Concepts of Urban Design by David Gosling and Barry Maitland has stated that, “History provides a large number of traditional urban forms which have survived the passage of time and which work to a greater or lesser degree. (Gosling & Maitland, 1984).” This statement provides some evidence to show that even professionals in the planning world recognise and base some urban designs on ‘traditional urban forms’. Examples of this range from

Heritage buildings act in the same way; the characters of built environments have changed and continue to change as architectural styles do throughout time. The architecture of today adds to and becomes but one of the layers in the urban fabric. New designs in an existing city set out to mimic, integrate, juxta-pose, harmonies, contrast, juxtapose or even com-pete with the existing status quo. Each situation re-quires a different approach with different design re-quirements assessed on a case-by-case basis (Or-basli, 2010). The proposed research will discuss the adaptation of the cultural heritage between tra-dition and innovation: how case-by-case design re-quirements impact on heritage building’s identity, looking at museums in

The architectural features of Wealthy Heights, the district with ethnic/heritage value, were important, yet less important than those of Heritage Hill, the district with architectural value. Regarding the preservation of Wealthy Heights, community participants wanted moderate changes to the architectural features the most. The difference between moderate and radical changes was subjectively determined. However, the marking activity and results accelerated participants’ discussions of the given topic. In general, there was a common understanding on the importance and appropriate treatment regardless of the different degrees. In many cases, participants preferred visually/physically compatible changes. Community participants were concerned with

Architecture should be nurturing, responsive and alive, dynamically shifting spatial balances, organically expressive forms, subtly luminous colors and biologically healthy. To achieve such life-enhancing architecture, it has to address all the body senses simultaneously and fuse our image of self with experience of the world. By strengthening our sense of self and reality, architecture serves its all-important function of accommodation and

The article argued that although new and modern architectural buildings are satisfying and innovating, they can take away from a sense of place or culture as Meade’s states himself “New, shiny buildings are all well and good, but what architects forget about is a sense of place – and beauty of wastelands” (Meades, 2012). Meades expresses his issue against architects overly modernizing structures, which might also have to do with that fact that the artists are getting paid for the designing of the “vanity projects” and the projects themselves are getting paid for. To draw reference to the Rome’s ancient city there is a constant style, grey colour and material that is used. If one were to view an image of the ancient city it is easily noticeable as to where it may it located, in this case Rome. It is almost essential that cities do not let go of their architectural traditions to keep the history and character life. Although it is inevitable for modernizations to be made, they should be worked traditional

This book was written by Juhani Pallasmaa with regard to ‘Polemics’, on issues that were part of the architecture discourse of the time, i.e. 1995. It is also an extending of ideas expressed in an essay entitled “Architecture of the seven senses” published in 1994.

Campbell (1996), argues that it is necessary to focus on three major points, being the environment, economy and society when planning a sustainable city. He constructs a prism which holds each of these features at a

Architecture is a way of expressing one’s vision to improve their daily lives. Correspondingly, the urban plan effect how society go about their lives and interact with each other. The manner in which the town is planned gives an idea the motivation and values of the town.

The idea of the vernacular is strong in Australian architecture and is often defined in terms of the 'city ' and the 'bush '.

The ‘Community Architecture’ is kind of architectural practice between architects and users. Also, it can be described as architect follow the wish of users or community to design the building fit the requirement by using local materials and helps the residents to build the structure. Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) described ‘Community Architecture’ should follow the idea about "The aim of community architecture is to improve the quality of the environment by involving people in the design and management of the buildings and spaces they inhabit." () In general, architect call ‘Conventional Architecture’ product, nevertheless ‘Community Architecture’ represents the process rather than the product and most proponents claim that the built product of ‘Community Architecture’ is often better than the product of conventional architecture. “Community architecture means that the personal who inhabit it are involved in and may even be instigators of, its creation and its management as well. The inhabitants are the clients; and the architect works for, or at least with them--in contrast to the typical situation where architects and user never meet.” () The ‘ community architecture’ was the newly invented notion that user participation in the environment is more important than any of another architectural concept, especially in contrast to ‘conventional architecture’. The reasons of that could be limited resources, materials and

There are two types of relationships between permanence and place. Architectural distinction helps to particularize a place from its surroundings. It is a static permanence. It is related to physical relationship between the building and place, its endurance, firmness and stability. Second fundamental factor is time. Time is responsible to create long lasting dispositions resulting in notable events which help to create permanent traditions that are embedded to its place. This dynamic permanence is based on mental relationship between community and place, through consciousness, awareness and various activities related to it. (Tuan, 2014)

“ Architecture organizes and structures space for us, and its interiors and the objects enclosing and inhabiting its rooms can facilitate or inhibit our activities by the way they use this language”(Lawson pg.6).

Architecture can be viewed with two different types of properties. Properties that can be seen like shapes, their composition, the spaces they create and, the colours and textures that make up their appearance. These properties are considered to be visual while other properties are considered to be abstract. These properties can only be described using words; the meanings behind the architecture and the stories that can be told about it. The context, its cultural background and its function also affects how we view architecture. The question is, what