Architecture in Context: Designing in the Middle East
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (701 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1118719883 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
It does this by:presenting a practical overview of architectural know-how in the Middle East, and its potential for cultivating a sense of placeintroducing local architectural vocabularies and styles, and how they can still be reactivated in contemporary designexploring the cultural and contextual meaning of forms as references that may influence contemporary architecturediscussing important discourses and trends in architecture that allow a rethinking of the current global/local dichotomy. Highly illustrated, the book covers architecture and design in North Africa, the Levant, the Gulf, and Turkey, Iran and Iraq. . Students of architecture and practising architects in the region are also being taught from solely foreign historicist or modernist surveys that may not be directly relevant to the context in which they are designing. This book explores the envir
A Fulbright Scholar, he completed his MSc and PhD in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and as a Prince of Wales Scholar he also earned a second Master’s degree from the University of Wales, UK. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, University of Sharjah, American University of Sharjah, and Al Akhawayn University, and worke
It does this by:presenting a practical overview of architectural know-how in the Middle East, and its potential for cultivating a sense of placeintroducing local architectural vocabularies and styles, and how they can still be reactivated in contemporary designexploring the cultural and contextual meaning of forms as references that may influence contemporary architecturediscussing important discourses and trends in architecture that allow a rethinking of the current global/local dichotomy.Highly illustrated, the book covers architecture and design in North A