Arab contemporary:   architecture & identity. /  txt 

 - 245 p.  ill. (chiefly col) ;  plans ;  25 cm.  book 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Contents:<br/>Foreword 8 --<br/>A world in waiting by Mette Marie Kallehauge 13 --<br/>What is arab identity to you?  25 --<br/>Quran lectern of judge Zain Eddine Yahya, Majordomo of Sultan Jaqmaq 32 --<br/>In Transit by Hannah Ziadeh 52 --<br/>Transformation three drawing offices 129 --<br/>Ateliers Jean Nouvel 132 --<br/>X-architects 136 --<br/>Henning Larsen architects 140 --<br/>Modernity and tradition by William J.R. Curtis 148 --<br/>From genius loci to genius logo 167 --<br/>Interview with Ibrahim Al-Koni 170 --<br/>Shibam, 16th century 172 --<br/>What did the people want? By Ala Al-Hamarneh 204 --<br/>Genius Logo 215 --<br/>Saadiyat Island 219 --<br/>Hyperabia by Boris Brorman Jensen 224 --<br/>List of work  242 -- 
<br/><br/> The Arab world consists of 24 countries bound together by the shared principal language Arabic, but otherwise exhibiting great differences and many exceptions - from Beirut to Sana'a, from Baghdad to Cairo, and from Dubai to Marrakesh. Other religions than Islam are practiced, and Islam itself is practiced in a multitude of ways; there are other landscapes than the desert and other languages than Arabic. Nevertheless one can point to certain common features that have survived from past to the present, and which mean that we can speak of a distinctive culture" -- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789792287246 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>1866714636 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Architecture--Arab countries.--Exhibitions.--History<br/>Arab Countries<br/>Architecture--Exhibitions.--Middle East<br/>Architecture<br/>Architecture--Exhibitions.<br/>Architecture--Arab countries--History<br/>Architecture and society.--Arab countries
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA1465.3   / A733 2014 
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