A comprehensive introduction for scholars and practitioners to the state of Islamic architecture as a field of inquiry and a snapshot of the issues and challenges facing the field today. This book brings together established experts,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Dec-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399521932)
Traces the modernization process of architectural education in Middle Eastern and North African countries between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The History of Architectural Education in the Middle East and North Africa exp...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a new, salutogenic, perspective on the development of early modern cities by exploring profound and complex ways in which architecture and landscape design served to promote public health on an urban scale. Focusing on fifteenth- thr...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a new, salutogenic, perspective on the development of early modern cities by exploring profound and complex ways in which architecture and landscape design served to promote public health on an urban scale. Focusing on fifteenth- thr...Lasīt vairāk
Sacred Precincts examines non-Muslim religious sites in the Islamic world, revealing how architecture responds to contextual issues and traditions. It explores urban contexts; issues of identity; design; construction; transformation and the history o...Lasīt vairāk
Health and Architecture offers a uniquely global overview of the healthcare facility in the pre-modern era, engaging in a cross-cultural analysis of the architectural response to medical developments and the formation of specialized hospita...Lasīt vairāk
A comprehensive introduction for scholars and practitioners to the state of Islamic architecture as a field of inquiry and a snapshot of the issues and challenges facing the field today. This book brings together established experts,...Lasīt vairāk
Thirty-six interdisciplinary essays analyze the mutual relationship between historical epidemics and the built environment. Epidemic illnesses&;not only a product of biology, but also social and cultural phenomena&;are as...Lasīt vairāk
Thirty-six interdisciplinary essays analyze the mutual relationship between historical epidemics and the built environment. Epidemic illnesses&;not only a product of biology, but also social and cultural phenomena&;are as...Lasīt vairāk
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Presents a global overview of the architecture of healthcare facilities in the pre-modern era. Health and Architecture offers a uniquely global overview of the healthcare facility in the pre-modern era, engaging in a cross-cultural...Lasīt vairāk
Through a capillary documentation of the palimpsest of Aleppo&;of the peculiar characteristics of its courtyard houses and the neighborhoods of al-Bayyada, Bab Quinnesrin, and al-Farafira&;The Cultural Meaning of Aleppo is a th...Lasīt vairāk
This edited volume explores the dynamic relationship between the Friday mosque and the Islamic city, addressing the traditional topics through a fresh new lens and offering a critical examination of each case study in its own spatial, urban,...Lasīt vairāk
From Timurs tent in Samarqand to Shah Abbass palace in Isfahan and Humayuns tomb in Delhi, the pavilion has been an integral part of Persianate gardens since its earliest appearance at the Achaemenid garden in Pasargadae in the sixth century B...Lasīt vairāk
This volume consider the major trends and developments in Iranian architecture during the 1960s and ’70s in order to further our understanding of the underpinnings and intentions of Persian architecture during this period. While narrative...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Mar-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253039842)
As oil-rich countries in the Middle East are increasingly associated with soaring skyscrapers and modern architecture, attention is being diverted away from the pervasive struggles of social housing in those same urban settings. Social Housing...Lasīt vairāk
Social Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing in the region and considers how culture, faith, and politics influence the housing solutions offered. As oil-rich countries in the Middle East are increasingly...Lasīt vairāk
The Middle East is well-known for its historic gardens that have developed over more than two millenniums. The role of urban landscape projects in Middle Eastern cities has grown in prominence, with a gradual shift in emphasis from gardens for the...Lasīt vairāk
Historiography is the study of the methodology of writing history, the development of the discipline of history, and the changing interpretations of historical events in the works of individual historians. Exploring the historiography of Persian a...Lasīt vairāk
Presenting a critical, yet innovative, perspective on the cultural interactions between the East and the West, this book questions the role of travel in the production of knowledge and in the construction of the idea of the Islamic city....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Oct-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271077796)
A collection of essays exploring similarities between gardens and designed landscapes in Europe and the Islamic world after the fifteenth century. Essays identify possible direct or indirect influences and examine transcontinental mutual influences...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474411714)
This beautifully illustrated volume looks at the spaces created by and for Jews in areas under the political or religious control of Muslims. Covering regions as diverse as Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, it asks how the archit...Lasīt vairāk
