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Author : Hassan Fathy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Gourna written by Hassan Fathy and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hassan Fathy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226239144
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Architecture for the Poor written by Hassan Fathy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture for the Poor describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia, and such traditional Egyptian architectural designs as enclosed courtyards and vaulted roofing, Fathy worked with the villagers to tailor his designs to their needs. He taught them how to work with the bricks, supervised the erection of the buildings, and encouraged the revival of such ancient crafts as claustra (lattice designs in the mudwork) to adorn the buildings.
Author : Camilla Mileto
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351973959
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Vernacular and Earthen Architecture: Conservation and Sustainability written by Camilla Mileto and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernacular architecture in general and earthen architecture in particular, with their rich variety of forms worldwide, are custodians of the material culture and identity of the peoples who built them. In addition, they are widely recognized as ancestral examples of sustainability in all their variants and interpretations, and the architecture of the present ought to learn from these when designing the sustainable architecture of the future. The conservation of these architectures – seemingly simple yet full of wisdom – is to be undertaken now given their intrinsic value and their status as genuine examples of sustainability to be learnt from and interpreted in contemporary architecture. Vernacular and earthen architecture: Conservation and Sustainability will be a valuable source of information for academics and professionals in the fields of Environmental Science, Civil Engineering, Construction and Building Engineering and Architecture.
Author : C. A. Brebbia
Publisher : WIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1845644220
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Development and Planning IV written by C. A. Brebbia and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conference addresses the subjects of regional development in an integrated way in accordance with the principles of sustainability and provides a common forum for all scientists specialising in the range of subjects included within sustainable development and planning.
Author : David Seamon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351212494
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Life Takes Place written by David Seamon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Takes Place argues that, even in our mobile, hypermodern world, human life is impossible without place. Seamon asks the question: why does life take place? He draws on examples of specific places and place experiences to understand place more broadly. Advocating for a holistic way of understanding that he calls "synergistic relationality," Seamon defines places as spatial fields that gather, activate, sustain, identify, and interconnect things, human beings, experiences, meanings, and events. Throughout his phenomenological explication, Seamon recognizes that places are multivalent in their constitution and sophisticated in their dynamics. Drawing on British philosopher J. G. Bennett’s method of progressive approximation, he considers place and place experience in terms of their holistic, dialectical, and processual dimensions. Recognizing that places always change over time, Seamon examines their processual dimension by identifying six generative processes that he labels interaction, identity, release, realization, intensification, and creation. Drawing on practical examples from architecture, planning, and urban design, he argues that an understanding of these six place processes might contribute to a more rigorous place making that produces robust places and propels vibrant environmental experiences. This book is a significant contribution to the growing research literature in "place and place making studies."
Author : Nathan J. Citino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107036623
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Envisioning the Arab Future written by Nathan J. Citino and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reinterprets US-Arab relations by examining conflicts between American Cold War policies and the modernizing visions of Arab nationalists, Islamists, and communists.
Author : Michelle Moore Apotsos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108617999
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Masjid in Contemporary Islamic Africa written by Michelle Moore Apotsos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the lens of the masjid, Michelle Apotsos examines alternative spaces and architectural landscapes of Islamic practice in contemporary Africa that highlight the unique solutions that Muslim communities are adopting in order to confront contemporary modernization and the new diverse conditions it brings.
Author : Omnia El Shakry
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804781923
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Great Social Laboratory written by Omnia El Shakry and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-29 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Social Laboratory charts the development of the human sciences—anthropology, human geography, and demography—in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt. Tracing both intellectual and institutional genealogies of knowledge production, this book examines social science through a broad range of texts and cultural artifacts, ranging from the ethnographic museum to architectural designs to that pinnacle of social scientific research—"the article." Omnia El Shakry explores the interface between European and Egyptian social scientific discourses and interrogates the boundaries of knowledge production in a colonial and post-colonial setting. She examines the complex imperatives of race, class, and gender in the Egyptian colonial context, uncovering the new modes of governance, expertise, and social knowledge that defined a distinctive era of nationalist politics in the inter- and post-war periods. Finally, she examines the discursive field mapped out by colonial and nationalist discourses on the racial identity of the modern Egyptians.
Author : Ahmad Hamid
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617973726
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Hassan Fathy and Continuity in Islamic Arts and Architecture written by Ahmad Hamid and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hassan Fathy, the Egyptian architect known for his recognition of the potential of vernacular forms as a vital force in contemporary architectural design, sought to integrate the traditions of Islamic art with his modern visions for living. Guided by Fathy's principles, Ahmad Hamid, an architect who collaborated with Hassan Fathy in the Institute for Appropriate Technology, identifies questions about the nature of Islamic art and its building culture, as well as the origins of modern architecture. This richly illustrated book provides new insights into Hassan Fathy's profuse, pathbreaking design documents and built projects, while exploring the socioeconomic, environmental, psychological, and esthetic components of Fathy's work in the light of a quest for a new universal modernity for the twenty-first century.
Author : Sherif Hashem
Publisher : Business Expert Press
ISBN 13 : 1947098055
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Greatness in Construction History written by Sherif Hashem and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are into construction project management, this book is certainly for you. This is creative non-fiction. Travel through times and spaces. Meet with historic world leaders. Work alongside the world’s greatest master-builders. Live the sights and sounds of ancient cities and construction sites. Discover the stories behind the greatest landmark buildings shaping the world skyline. Feel the genesis of great creatures and the moments they age or die out. Witness inaugurations celebrated by the entire universe. Hear the buildings breathe, laugh, cry, and at times suicide. Shed a tear for the martyrs of construction greatness. Moreover, if you are into construction project management, this book is certainly for you. It includes a bulk of Agile, PMBOK© Guide, and Design-Build project management lessons learned extracted right from the stories of a host of the greatest projects in human history. Enjoy!
Author : Malcolm Miles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134185758
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Urban Utopias written by Malcolm Miles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-21 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopia tends to generate a bad press - regarded as impracticable, perhaps nostalgic, or contradictory when visions of a perfect world cannot accommodate the change that is necessary to a free and self-organizing society. But people from diverse backgrounds are currently building a new society within the old, balancing literal and metaphorical utopianism, and demonstrating plural possibilities for alternative futures and types of settlement. Thousands of such places exist around the world, including intentional communities, eco-villages, permaculture plots, religious and secular retreats, co-housing projects, self-build schemes, projects for low-impact housing, and activist squats in urban and rural sites. This experience suggests, however, that when planning and design are not integral to alternative social formations, the modern dream to engineer a new society cannot be realized. The book is structured in four parts. In part one, literary and theoretical utopias from the early modern period to the nineteenth-century are reconsidered. Part two investigates twentieth-century urban utopianism and contemporary alternative settlements focusing on social and environmental issues, activism and eco-village living. Part three looks to wider horizons in recent practices in the non-affluent world, and Part four reviews a range of cases from the author’s visits to specific sites. This is followed by a short conclusion in which a discussion of key issues is resumed. This book brings together insights from literary, theoretical and practical utopias, drawing out the characteristics of groups and places that are part of a new society. It links today’s utopian experiments to historical and literary utopias, and to theoretical problems in utopian thought.
Author : C.A. Brebbia
Publisher : WIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1784660833
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Islamic Heritage Architecture and Art written by C.A. Brebbia and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Islamic Heritage Architecture and Art. The papers deal with the design of many types of buildings in Islamic countries and the influence that these structural forms have had in non-Islamic countries. Coverage will also include construction materials. There is much to learn from past experiences to arrive at solutions that are environmentally sound and sustainable in the long term. As conventional energy resources become scarce, the Islamic design heritage can offer invaluable lessons on how to deal with difficult and extreme environments in an efficient manner. Traditional architecture and urban environment in most Islamic countries is now being eroded by overemphasis on global type of architecture and city planning. As a consequence, many regions are losing their identity. The Conference will aim to review these developments in the light of what the classical Islamic urban designs and architectures have to offer modern society. There will also be coverage of conservation techniques appropriate to the materials and structural forms used. Topics covered include: Architectural heritage; Archaeological studies; Historical aspects; The Islamic urban environment; Types of buildings (e.g., Mosques and minarets; Mausolea; Citadels and fortifications, Baths and caravanserais; Bridges and dams; Cisterns and quants; Earth-sheltered architecture; Irrigation systems; Wind towers); Climate adaptability; Arches and vaults; Domes and squinches; Double shell dome; Geometry and orientation; The use of light; Design and nature; Vernacular architecture; Construction materials (e.g., Masonry and mortars; Wood, Metals; Tiles, Adobe); Structural analysis; Earthquake resistant structures; Calligraphy, painting and patterns; Architectural conservation. The contents will be of interest to all researchers, practitioners and government employees actively involved with Islamic Heritage Architecture.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Ideas and Methods Exchange written by and published by . This book was released on 195? with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Leonard Irby
Publisher : London : J. Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and the Holy Land written by Charles Leonard Irby and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1844 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Friedrich Ragette
Publisher : Edition Axel Menges
ISBN 13 : 3932565304
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Traditional Domestic Architecture of the Arab Region written by Friedrich Ragette and published by Edition Axel Menges. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1.Introduction 2.The Arab Region 3.The origins of architecture 4. Traditional materials for construction 5. Traditional structures 6.Shelter in the Arab Region 7.The planning elements 8.Water and waste management 9.Traditional design strategies 10.Exceptions to the rule 11.Case studies 12.Western vs Eastern ways 13.Appendix.
Author : Clare Dieckmann
Publisher : Clare Dieckmann
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Terracotta written by Clare Dieckmann and published by Clare Dieckmann. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary rammed earth buildings present an alternative material choice for Australian architects. Earth can be recycled endlessly, making unaltered mixtures of earth the most sustainable option. The sustainable potential of earth is raising awareness towards where our broader construction industry chooses to extract materials from and our impact on the natural environment. Rammed earth buildings are often located within rural and regional settings set amongst beautiful landscapes of wine-growing vineyards in nutrient-rich soils. Australian rammed earth walls are coloured by the unique mineral composition of soil stamped beneath our feet.
Author : Abdel Halim El Rimaly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Rural Settlement as a Basic Element in the Regional Pattern of Egypt written by Abdel Halim El Rimaly and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
