Review Buys, L., Aird, R., Othman., Z., 2014. ‘Privacy Modesty, Hospitality, and the Design of Muslim Homes: A Literature Review.’ Faculty of Creative Industries, Brisbane, www.ScienceDirect.com. Privacy Modesty, Hospitality, and the Design of Muslim Homes: A Literature Review:

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Buys, L., Aird, R., Othman., Z., 2014. ‘Privacy Modesty, Hospitality, and the Design of Muslim Homes: A Literature Review.’ Faculty of Creative Industries, Brisbane, www.ScienceDirect.com.

Privacy Modesty, Hospitality, and the Design of Muslim Homes: A Literature Review:

ARTICLE REPRESENTS A CROSS CULTURAL DIALOGUE OF MUSLIM DOMESTICITY. While there is no harm in selecting a small group of articles from the previous three decades, this article does so without regard to many of the other sources of information where one may have found information regarding the topic of ‘Domestic Life within Muslim residencies’. Which would have been a more appropriate title.

Adroitly covering the titles of the spaces of domiciles, concentrating on Malaysia, Iran, Turkey more than the elected ‘Middle East’. Except for a brief outline of middle eastern countries in the final few paragraphs.

This article was interesting so far as it does indeed congregate labels, identify male and female spaces, partially including their use, as such; also identifies some social structure. Giving an appearance of regurgitating itself. It also fails to place like points against each other.

Had there been some formal direction of both the use of the names within the residential structures, a comprehensive outline of which structures related to one another across culture, and namely: where certain elements of design difference (or use difference) are not labelled and placed in such a way within the text as to be easily mis-read (as in: the difference between the use of the Malaysian front veranda v. The Malaysian front porch – are these actually the same space?)

The greatest benefit is not so much the content but rather, the few direct outlines of one or two of the pieces of literature that was reviewed.

There is possibly scope for a greater organization of building components and cultural components so that the dialogue does not flip from one spectrum to the next and then back again without concern for what is being said.

Find in here: outline of various spaces, buildings to refer too, (Omer, 2011) – suggests is a good place to find strict planning requirements of Muslim homes.




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