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Architecture > Location > Middle East
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SUPERLATIVE EMIRATES
Michael Schindhelm, Georg Katodrytis, Amer A. Moustafa
daab
ISBN: 394259708X
RRP Price: £45.00
Hardback
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It took only a few years for Dubai and Abu Dhabi to become glittering metropolises with state-of-the-art technological standards, the highest highrises, the largest airports, and the world’s largest artificial islands. However, there still is no end in sight, and the other member states of The Unite....MORE
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Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht
Dieter Arnold
Yale
ISBN: 0300123442
RRP Price: £45.00
Hardback
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This volume documents twenty-two private tombs of the Egyptian Twelfth Dynasty that were excavated by the Metropolitan Museum Egyptian Expedition from 1906 to 1934 and 1986 to 1989. Focusing on the study and reconstruction of the architecture of the tombs, the book also includes remains of wall deco....MORE
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Dubai
daab
ISBN: 3937718478
RRP Price: £34.95
Hardback
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Only a few decades ago, Dubai was merely a tranquil Bedouin city. Today, the skyline of a boomtown rises from the desert. Reports about it are distinguished by superlatives. In particular, reports regardign new buildings in this country of little shadow overshadow anything that has been constructed ....MORE
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Dubai
daab
ISBN: 3866541236
RRP Price: £34.95
Hardback
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After the huge success of a first publication on architecture and design in Dubai released in 2006, daab brings us a completely new, follow-up edition with even more unusual construction projects describable only in superlatives. To many architect’s, Dubai has served as a booming playground in the l....MORE
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Arabian Design
daab
ISBN: 3937718540
RRP Price: £22.50
Hardback
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This book shows the progression of Interior Design of the Arabian countries. In contrast to many countries modeled according to the Western traditions, the Arabian culture is closely tied to religious and social values. The current discussion regarding contemporary architecture broaches the subject ....MORE
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The Architecture of Rasem Badran
James Steele
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500342067
RRP Price: £36.00
Hardback
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The influence of the award-winning Jordanian architect Rasem Badran is rapidly spreading throughout the developing world. His work involves the full spectrum from urban planning to individual residences. His work is human-scaled, responsive to its environment and meets the social and cultural requir....MORE
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Islamic Art and Architecture
Henri Stierlin
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500511004
RRP Price: £35.00
Hardback
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In this superbly crafted survey, Henri Stierlin discusses the vast scope of Islamic architecture and architectural decoration from the frontiers of Iran to the heart of India and places it within its historical context, while copious photographs of Islam's monuments, ceramics, miniatures and carpets....MORE
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World Architecture - Islam
Henri Stierlin
Taschen
ISBN: 3836510596
RRP Price: £7.99
Hardback
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The products of a highly-developed architectural style even today bear witness to the greatness of Arabic culture
To the western eye, cities such as Jerusalem, Mecca, Baghdad or Cairo can seem utterly alien. It is not only the way of life that is unfamiliar, it is also the astoundingly varied arc....MORE
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World Architecture – Egypt
Dietrich Wildung , Henri Stierlin
Taschen
ISBN: 3836510308
RRP Price: £7.99
Hardback
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Large-format hardcover edition at a new low price
The architecture of the pharaohs represents some of the most impressive creative work ever produced in Egyptian art and yet it has never been completely assessed.
Dietrich Wildung, Curator of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin, gives a compelling a....MORE
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Architecture in the Emirates
Philip Jodidio
Taschen
ISBN: 3822813966
RRP Price: £16.99
Hardback
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The small emirates and states located on the Gulf, at the eastern edge of the Saudi Arabian peninsula, are building new cities in the desert at an astonishing rate, from Bahrain to Doha, and south to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Comprised of Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Shar....MORE
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Ancient Architecture
Hans Wolfgang Müller , Seton Lloyd
Electa Architecture
ISBN: 1904313280
RRP Price: £19.95
Hardback
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Seton Lloyd and Hans Wolfgang Müller describe the beginnings of architecture in the Ancient Near Middle East and Egypt, the brithplace of Western civilisation, where the newly born science of construction merged with an emerging aesthetic practice. This book examines sites and structures from neolit....MORE
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