ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book argues that residents have their own historical routes of lineage, traditions, habits and social networks: all of which are at work in their everyday life. As such, homes of today are not a contemporary production; rather, they are a historical construct of people-building-behaviour association in everyday life, or what is called throughout the book, a socio-spatial practice of home. It focuses While the book is basically architectural in its structure and methodology, sociological, anthropological and geographical information is used, where relevant, to clarify the architecture of home within the hawari of the old city. Through the architecture of home, the book liberates architecture from its physical determinants, characteristics and aesthetics, while working on the process of planning: enhancing and playing with the objectives and characteristics of space to accommodate changing subjective needs.
