(Ebook) The Influence of Globalization on Distracting Traditional Aesthetic Values in Old Town of Erbil by MA. Zhino Hariry Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Fine Arts, Girne American University, KKTC, North Cyprus

(Ebook) The Influence of Globalization on Distracting Traditional Aesthetic Values in Old Town of Erbil by MA. Zhino Hariry Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Fine Arts, Girne American University, KKTC, North Cyprus

Aesthetics as a discipline was originally part of philosophy and cosmology, primarily
it was used to create a holistic picture of the world. Throughout history, subject and
tasks of aesthetics as a discipline have been changing in different historical, cultural,
religious and artistic discourses, nature and the beauty of objects intentionally
produced by man, but doubts in division of aesthetic experiences in comparison to these
variants of beauty. One of the cities where started to rebuild in North Iraq after the
Saddam Hussein s regime was Erbil. This fact has evidently started to come out as a
problem of urban conservation that results in the loss of architectural and social values
of the historical settings. New building in a historical settlement is an urban
conservation problem that forms out a methodology of analyzing and evaluating the
existing built fabric with a typological study, making an interpretation of it commenting
on the legal regulations and introducing new principles that are based on the synthesis
of the past and today for providing historical continuity and preserving urban identity
despite the continuous change. The study revealed that by using local and traditional
elements in modern architecture there is a possibility to protect historical building.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2017) 1(1), 56-66.
https://doi.org/10.25034/1761.1(1)56-66