Role of artistic and philosophic ideas in perception of architectural environmental unity of Islamic arab cities

Abstract

The work deals with the investigation of imagery essence within Arab architecture. The problem of preserving artistic unity of architectural environment is the principal one in intensively developing Arab cities. Understanding of architectural environmental unity is possible due to awaking important metaphors and, thus, images come to the fore in the consciousness of a person with the help of dominating architectural form. Images modeling outer-space order in architectural sphere are based upon archetypical oppositions. In Islamic architecture they are most vivid in architecture of traditional and modern mosques and form the images of the world, Universe creation, they form mega-images.